From activity one i learned different materials heat up at different rates. We placed water, soil, and snow under a heat lamp and we measured the rate at which the temp. went up. The water was the slowest to go up, it only went up .1 every two min. The soil was the fastest to go up, it went up about .4 every two min. The snow stayed the same throughout the whole thing. We also measured the temp. of each material as we let it cool. The water was the fastest to cool, the soil heated up a little and the snow stayed the same.
This activity relates to my topic by they both have to do with warming a surface. In the activity we warmed the materials and the greenhouse effect, it warms the earths surface.
greenhouse paper
The Greenhouse Effect is the process by which the Earth is warming steadily due to its absorption of radiation by the planet's atmosphere. Energy leaves the Sun through Radiation. These radioactive waves are then reflected back into space. The greenhouse effect happens all over the world, it has to do with the atmospheric gases being trapped, so therefore this effects everyone. The greenhouse effect occurs in all types of weather, its just the atmospheric gases being trapped inside that cause the warmer weather to occur all year round. This just causes it to be warmer then it usually is. The environment is not effected in a bad way, this just helps plant grow and helps warm things up. People help make this happen by burning natural gas, coal, and oil, farming and land use, factory pollution, deforestation and factory growth. The scientist know this because of the high amounts of gases that are in the air. There are no warnings issued for the greenhouse effect because it is a good thing and it helps us survive. The scientists are saying that in the future if we keep putting natural gases out there then the earth will eventually heat up and it could be a bad thing.
