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Greenhouse gases

What is the greenhouse effect? Is the greenhouse effect a good thing?

What is a greenhouse gas? What human activities release greenhouse gases?

What are the five greenhouse gases? How can greenhouse gas emissions be reduced?

What happens if there are too many greenhouse ??


gases in the atmosphere?
Global warming - causes, consequences and prevention
What causes global warming?

Consequences of global warming?

How to prevent global warming?


Greenhouse gases and global warming.

Have you met the learning


objectives:
4.13 understand that water vapour,
carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, methane
and CFCs are greenhouse gases
4.14 understand how human activities
contribute to greenhouse gases
4.15 understand how an increase in
greenhouse gases results in an
enhanced greenhouse effect and that
this may lead to global warming and its
consequences

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