Explain how our atmosphere works like greenhouse glass and identify the gases involved.

Gases in the atmosphere such as carbon dioxide do what the roof of a greenhouse does. Earth's surface warms up in the sunlight. At night, Earth's surface cools, releasing the heat back into the air. The gases involved in the greenhouse effect are carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, halocarbons, chlorofluorocarbons, water vapor, and ozone. These gases are all in Earth's atmosphere.

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scouteo scouteo · Answer 2 · 2019-09-07T18:05:05+02:00

The correct answer to this open question is the following.

Our atmosphere works like greenhouse glass because greenhouse gases act precisely as a greenhouse, not allowing all the rays of the Sun to reflect back to space and that heat stays on Earth, warming the atmosphere and the surface of our planet. We are talking about greenhouse gases such as methane, carbon dioxide, water vapor, ozone, and nitrous oxide. Burning fossil fuels is a big problem that affects planet Earth because it increases the accumulation of greenhouse gases, and contributes to global warming.