How is the earths atmosphere like a green house?

Answer 1

The Earth's atmosphere acts like a greenhouse through a process known as the greenhouse effect. This effect occurs when certain gases in the atmosphere, such as carbon dioxide and methane, trap heat from the sun and prevent it from escaping back into space. This trapped heat warms the Earth's surface, similar to how a greenhouse traps heat to warm plants inside. Over time, human activities have increased the concentration of these greenhouse gases, leading to global warming and climate change.

Answer 2

Yes, in a way, though the two things are not exactly the same. Heat is retained in a greenhouse because there is no way for the hot air to get past the barrier of the glass or plastic walls. Heat is retained in the earth's atmosphere by the greenhouse gases which are part of the atmosphere. These warm and the whole atmosphere warms. There is no physical barrier holding in the heat, and in fact, some of the heat radiates off out into space.

Answer 3

It's not similar!

The popular view is that the atmosphere has some sort of layer of carbon dioxide "up there" that reflects heat back down to Earth rather than letting it escape to space. That would be like the glass on a greenhouse trapping warm air in while letting the sunlight through to increase the heat. In a greenhouse the sunlight warms the benches and floor, he warm objects heat the air, the air is trapped by the double layer of insulating glass.

It does not happen that way.

Sunlight comes in and warms the Earth's surface. It warms the gases in the air too, at least some of them with a bond size that gets excited by sunlight. These special gases are greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, methane, water vapour and a few others). They are mixed evenly through all of the atmosphere (not in layer). When the gases are warm they share their heat with all their gas molecule neighbour and heat the atmosphere generally.

The effect is more like wet sand in a microwave. Microwaves do not heat sand. They do heat water. When you microwave wet sand, the water heats up - might even turn to steam. The hot water warms the sand.

Answer 4

The Earth's atmosphere acts like a greenhouse by trapping heat from the sun, much like the glass walls of a greenhouse. Greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere allow sunlight to enter and warm the Earth, but prevent some of the heat from escaping back into space, resulting in a warming effect known as the greenhouse effect.

Answer 5

the earth is like a green house becase the earths atmosphere traps in heat just like how glass walls in a green house do