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1- It all starts with the sun 2-When sunlight hits our atmosphere, some of the light is reflected back into space, while most of it is absorbed by the Earth. This causes Earth to warm up. 3- When Earth's heat radiates, it is absorbed in the atmosphere by "greenhouse gases". This keeps heat from disappearing into space and keeps Earth warm so that it can support life 4- The burning of fossil fuels release additional greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide.... These have different heat trapping capcities

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When heat from the sun reaches Earth, a small amount of light is reflected back into space while most of it is absorbed by the Earth. This causes the Earth to warm up. When the heat on Earth radiates, it is absorbed by gases in the atmosphere called "greenhouse gases". They keep heat from disappearing into space and keeps Earth warm enough to support life. The burning of substances like fossil fuels release additional greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. These gases include carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide. Each of them have different heat trapping capacities.

Poster of Terms- On the Poster of Terms, I had the changes of the seasons, the Greenhouse Effect and the Greenhouse Gases. I also had an effect of Global Warming which was the melting of ice in the antarctic and plants. Plants because the lack of plants is a cause of Global Warming.

Global Warming Research- One cause of Global Warming is the lack of plants in our environment. This is a cause of Global Warming because since plants take in Carbon Dioxide, if there are not enough plants, then there is more Carbon in the atmosphere and that causes the Earth to warm up. This is Global Warming. Another Cause of Global Warming is the burning of fossil fuels in our environment. When human activities, such as the burning of fossil fuels are done, there are chemicals released into the air. The chemical that burning fossil fuels releases is Carbon Dioxide and if humans keep burning fossil fuels from items like trains, cars, factorys, exc., there is even more Carbon Dioxide and other greenhouse gases that are released into the air which causes Global Warming. One more cause of Global Warming is when heat is absorbed by greenhouse gases. This prevents heat from form disappearing into the atmosphere and keeps Earth war enough to sustain life. After a while, this builds up and it causes Earth to warm up and can cause Global Warming.

Is Global Warming Real?- I think that Global Warming is not caused entirely by humans. I think humans help increase Global Warming by doing things like urning fossil fuels which release additional greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Other things such as the fact that each year, trees grow thicker and grow new rings. In warmer and wetter years, the rings on rees grow thicker.

Reduce Global Warming- One way to reduce Global Warming is to increase the plan supply in our environment. If there are more plants in the environment, then more Carbon Dioxide will be taken from the air which reduces Global Warming. This works because plants take in Carbon Dioxide. If there are not enough plants in he environment, the amout of Carbon in the atmosphere will increase. This is because if there are not enough plants to take in the Carbon Dioxide that is needed, hen the Carbon builds up and this is a cause of Global Warming. Another way to reduce Global Warming is by increasing solar energy. We can make this possible by using solar pannels to reflect light to power equipment and different utilities. By doing this, we can reduse the amout of other energy use that can cause Global Warming. One more way to reduce Global Warming is to burn less fossil fuels. When humans burn substances form facories, cars, trains, exc., there are fossil fuels released into the air as additional greenhouse gases. This causes Global Warming.

Culminating Activity- (Shannon Micklewright and Laurel Braaten) We did a PowerPoint on how you can use plants to reduce Global Warming. We discovered that if you increase the amount of plants in your environment, you can decrease Global Warming. Since plants take in Carbon Dioxide, if there are not enough plants, there is excess Carbon Dioxide in the air, this causes Global Warming. If you can plant even 1 extra plant in your environment, you can make he biggest difference in our world.

Really good info. Shannon! You did really, really good! You also did a good job with working with Laurel! <3 Sam