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Q: What is the effect called the traps heat in like a blanket and distributes the heat around earth?
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What is the Blanket Effect?

The Blanket Effect is a term used to describe that the underside of a cloud reflects back down to the land. It is trying to prove that the earth's surface is radiating upward.


What is the process in which heat is trapped in earth's atmosphere by water vapor carbon dioxide and other gases that form a blanket around earth?

Greenhouse effect


How is the atmosphere of the earth similar to being covered by a blanket at night?

Heat is trapped in the atmosphere (the greenhouse effect) and this keeps us warm. So does a blanket.


How do you think the greenhouse effect has altered Venus?

I think the greenhouse effect has altered Venus because carbon dioxide is a gas so it makes a thick blanket around the Earth to fill in the open holes.


Carbon dioxide and water vapor act like a blanket over the earth?

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One effect of the magnetic lines of force around the earth is an area of charged particles called the?

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What is an area of charged particles that is formed as one effect of the magnetic lines of force around the earth called?

Such areas are called Van Allen belts.


What effect does the ozone layer have on your environment?

Ozone layer acts as a blanket of air for us. It protects us from the UV rays of the sun.


How do fossil fuels and deforestation affect the environment?

Burning fossil fuels affect the environment by releasing CO2 or carbon dioxide which creates an invisible blanket in Earth's atmosphere. The blanket traps the sun's rays making the planet's temperature increase. This is called the greenhouse effect. Deforestation removes the trees that were taking carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. So both things are contributing to global warming.


One effect of the magnetic lines of force around the earth is an area of charged particles called the what?

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Give some useful applications of Greenhouse Effect?

well say the attmosphere was a blanket and the blanket had a hole in it. well the sunlight goes through that hole and the blanket closes the hole to were the sunlight cannot leave the attmosphere and that causes the greenhouse effect aka global warming