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1. Global warming is the gradual increase of:
ocean temperatures planet-wide temperatures temperatures at the poles

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2. Which is not one of the theories on global warming:
the Sun is the cause humans are responsible caused by erratic weather

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3. Burning fossil fuels may contribute to global warming because:
they don't dissipate they contain PCBs carbon is trapped in atmosphere

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4. Every year fossil fuels emit ___ tons of carbon:
6,000,000,000 16,000,000,000 26,000,000,000

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5. Carbon dioxide content in the atmosphere has increased 13% because of:
decaying plants factory output oxygen & carbon interaction

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6. One theory says 55% of the greenhouse pollutants in the form of carbon dioxide comes from:
biomass burning fossil fuels factory output

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7. Our atmosphere allows which 3 gasses through to the Earth's surface:
water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane water vapor, carbon dioxide, helium water vapor, carbon monoxide, methane

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8. The greenhouse effect is:
a man-made process an environmental process a natural process

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