The Green-House effect

A greenhouse is a house made of glass has glass walls and a glass roof and usually stays warm inside, even during winter. Sunlight shines in and keeps the interior warm. But the heat is trapped by the glass and can’t escape. So during the daylight hours, it gets warmer and warmer inside a greenhouse and stays warm at night too.

Earth’s atmosphere does the same thing as the greenhouse. Gases in the atmosphere such as carbon dioxide do what the roof of a greenhouse does. During the day, the Sun shines through the atmosphere. 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

What causes the Greenhouse effect?

I) Deforestation

II) Burning of fossil fuels

III) Increase in population

Consequences

Some disastrous consequences of greenhouse effects are:

i) More droughts

ii) More floods

iii) Less ice and snow

iv) Rise above sea level

v) Climate change