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Date _______________________________________________ Year __________________________

1. What amount of the solar radiation that reaches the Earth gets to the Earths surface? Explain what
happens to the solar radiation that does not reach the Earths surface.

2. What would the temperature be like on the surface of the Earth if there was no atmosphere? Why?

3. We talk more and more about global warming.

a) What is the cause of global warming?

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b) What can we do to avoid it?

c) Give one of the consequences of current climate change.

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4. What is the cause of the rapid increase in the greenhouse effect?

5. Explain how the increase in the greenhouse effect is related to the following facts.
a) The reducing of the glaciers.

b) The disappearing of beaches.

c) The extinction of species of animals.

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d) The appearance of African species in the Iberian peninsula.

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