Earth Greenhouse Diagram. The absorbed energy warms the earth which in turn radiates heat back towards space as infrared energy. Carbon dioxide is the main heat trapping greenhouse gas that humans emit.
The main greenhouse gases are. Modeling the greenhouse effect students will do a lab that demonstrates the greenhouse effect and will discuss the results of the lab. The atmosphere of earth commonly known as air is the layer of gases retained by earths gravity that surrounds the planet and forms its planetary atmospherethe atmosphere of earth protects life on earth by creating pressure allowing for liquid water to exist on the earths surface absorbing ultraviolet solar radiation warming the surface through heat retention greenhouse.
This energy trap produces the greenhouse effect the main driver of global warming.
Carbon dioxide is the main heat trapping greenhouse gas that humans emit. The figure below illustrates how greenhouse gases keep the earth warmer than it would be without them. It shows how energy contained in sunlight warms our planet and how this energy becomes temporarily trapped as it flows away from earths surface as longwave infrared radiation. This diagram of the fast carbon cycle shows the movement of carbon between land atmosphere and oceans.