Simplified Explanation for Remedial Lesson in Grade 7

Science

MA. RACHEL B. ESPINO

Buhatan National High School
Purok Marcos, Buhatan, Sorsogon, City
 The GREENHOUSE EFFECT is a natural process that
warms the Earth’s surface.

To understand the greenhouse effect, we need to

understand how a real greenhouse works
HOW A GREENHOUSE WORKS
A greenhouse is a
house made of
glass. It has glass
walls and a glass
roof. People grow
vegetables, flowers
and other plants in
them. A
greenhouse stays
warm inside even
during cold
season.
 Intemperate
countries, a
greenhouse is
used to grow
seedlings in the
late winter and
early spring and
later, planted in
the open field
when the
weather is
warmer.
 Greenhouses also
protect plants from
weather phenomena
such as snowstorm or
duct forms. In tropical
countries like ours,
greenhouses are used
by commercial plant
growers to protect
flowering and
ornamental plants from
harsh weather
conditions and insect
attack.
HOW A GREENHOUSE WORKS
 Greenhouses allow sunlight to enter but prevent
heat from escaping. The transparent covering of the
greenhouse allows visible light to enter without
obstruction. It warms the inside of the greenhouse
as energy is absorbed by the plants, soil and other
things inside the building. Air warmed by the heat
inside is retained in the building by the roof and
walls. The transparent covering also prevents the
heat from leaving by reflecting the energy back into
the walls and preventing outside winds from
carrying it away.
Earth’s atmosphere does the same
things as the greenhouse.
Greenhouse gases in the
atmosphere do what the roof
of the greenhouse
does.
 During the day, the Sun shines through the
atmosphere. The Earth’s surface warms up in the
sunlight. At night, Earth’s surface cools, releasing
the heat back into the air, but some of the heat is
trapped by the greenhouse gases in the
atmosphere, they absorb the energy coming from
the Earth’s surface, keeping the Earth’s
temperature suitable for life on Earth. This process
by which the Earth’s atmosphere warms up is
called ‘greenhouse effect’
 The greenhouse effect is a natural process and it
warms the Earth. Without the greenhouse effect,
Earth would be very cold, too cold for living things
to live.
 However, if the greenhouse effect is too strong,
Earth gets warmer and warmer. Too much carbon
dioxide and other greenhouse gases in air can
make the greenhouse effect stronger which would
result to global warming.
SOURCES OF GREENHOUSE
GASES
CARBON DIOXIDE
 CARBON DIOXIDE
(CO2) is naturally
produced when people
and animals breathe.
Plants take in and use
CO2 to produce their
own food. When food is
oxidized in the cells,
CO2 is given off as a
waste product. It is also
returned to the air as a
product of combustion
and decomposition.
METHANE
 METHANE (CH4)
is emitted by
natural sources
such as
wetlands, as well
as human
activities such as
leakage from
natural gas
systems and the
raising of
livestock.
 OZONE (O3)is created
by sunlight acting on
oxides of nitrogen and
volatile organic
compounds in the air.
There are thousands
of types of sources of
these gases. Some of
the common sources
include gasoline
vapors, chemical
solvents, combustion
products of fuels and
consumer products.
CLOROFLUOROCARBONS
 CFC’s are anthropogenic
compounds that have
been released into the
atmosphere since 1930s
in various applications
such as in air-
conditioning,
refrigeration, blowing
agents in foams,
insulations and packing
materials, propellants in
aerosol cans and as
solvents.
WATER VAPOR
 WATER VAPOR is
the gaseous phase of
water. It is one state
of water within the
hydrosphere. Water
vapor can be
produced from the
evaporation or boiling
of liquid water or
from sublimation of
ice.
NITROUS OXIDE
 NITROUS OXIDES is
naturally present in the
atmosphere as part of the
nitrogen cycle and has a
variety of natural sources.
However, human
activities such as
agriculture, fossil fuel
combustion, waste water
management and
industrial processes are
increasing the amount of
nitrous oxide in the
atmosphere.
 Due to the increasing use of
fossil fuels, burning of
forest lands to increase
agricultural production,
decaying of agricultural
products and other human
activities, the concentration
of greenhouse gases in the
atmosphere has been
increasing, resulting in an
‘enhanced greenhouse
effect’ which is often
referred to as global
warming.
GLOBAL WARMING
 Global warming is the term used to describe a
gradual increase in the average temperature of the
Earth’s atmosphere and its oceans, a change that
is believed to be permanently changing the Earth’s
climate.
EFFECTS OF GLOBAL
WARMING
MELTING OF POLAR ICE CAPS
 Ice is melting worldwide especially at the Earth’s
poles. This includes mountain glaciers, ice sheets
covering West Antarctica and Greenland and Arctic
sea ice.
DECLINE OF ENDEMIC ANIMAL AND PLANT
SPECIES

Philippine Tarictic Hornbill

Tarsier Philippine
Eagle

Mindanao
Bleeding
Heart

Philippine Spotted Deer

Nephentes Camia Basingtonia asiatica

ventricosa

Ilang-ilang Waling-waling
INCREASE PRECIPITATION
 Precipitation (rain and snow fall) has increased
across the globe on average.
INCREASE POPULATION OF PESTS
DECLINE IN AGRICULTURAL HARVEST
DROUGHTS AND FLOODS BECOME COMMON
DECREASE SUPPLY OF CLEAN DRINKING
WATER
SPREAD OF DISEASES
HURRICANES AND TYPHOONS ARE STRONGER
AND MORE FREQUENT
SPECIES THAT DEPEND ON ONE ANOTHER MAY
BECOME OUT OF SYNC

 Species that depend

on one another do not
work at the same time
and speed. For
example, plants would
bloom earlier than their
pollinating insects
become active.
CHANGE IN THE NATURAL ECOSYSTEMS
 Ecosystems will change. Some species will move
farther north or become more successful; others
won’t be able to move and become extinct.
REFERENCES
 Science Learners Material
 Integrated Science I, DepEd, Quezon City: Vibal
Publishing House, 2009
 http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environ

ment/global-warming/gw-effects/
 http://climatekids.nasa.gov/greenhouse-effect/
SUGGESTED VIDEOS
 Global Warming: A Way Forward: Facing Climate
Change
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAA7FEqYTjA
 Six Degrees Could Change The World https://ww
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 LOREN LEGARDA: BUHOS, A Climate Change
Documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch
?v=ESW_S8ZHS80
 PANAHON NA! Ang Hamon sa Pinoy at Climate
Change
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOjyCHA_PeA