True or False? If we didnt have a blanket of gases around the earth, we would have a frozen earth.?

Answer 1

The Sun provides heat; the blanket of gases simply moderates it.

Answer 2

The blanket of gas keeps some of the sun’s heat inside, helping to regulate the temperature, as well as keeping the earth’s water content constant (in all forms – liquid, solid, and gas). We are close enough to the sun that we would not be frozen, but without the atmosphere, the earth’s temperature would be all over the place – blistering hot during the day, and deathly cold at night. Nothing would survive.

Answer 3

The answer to that question is true. Let's use Earth, Mars, and Venus as an example. Water vapor is an excellent example. Water vapor is a gas. One reason that night temperatures are so cold on earth in Winter is that the air is dry with very little water vapor. This causes any heat accumulated during the day to disappear, which is called radiational cooling. The same example can be given on that same winter day when there is a higher amount of water vapor. There is less cooling at night. With that as an example, let's apply it to the atmosphere. Nitrogen gasses, carbon dioxide, and water vapor act as a blanket minimizing the loss of heat escaping into the atmosphere which moderate our temperatures in a 24 hour period on Earth. Now let me use Mars as a second example. Mars has a thin vapor of carbon dioxide in its atmosphere. Yet surface temperatures vary from -200 to 75 degrees respectively. So the sun heats up Mars to 75 degrees, but the temperature drops 275 degrees as a result of only a thin layer of gasses in the atmosphere.

Now let's compare that to Venus. Venus is an example of what happens when you have too thick of a blanket of gas. Rather than dropping in temperature, the average temperature on Venus is 900 degrees. So yes, we would freeze on Earth, especially at night without a blanket of gas to keep in heat.

Answer 4

False

Answer 5

The moon doesn't have any, but it is not frozen. Besides, were there no hydrogen and oxygen, there wouldn't be any water to freeze.

Answer 6

hot as hell in the sunlight and frozen when the sun goes down

Answer 7

false, the sun is wat is keeping us warm and plus if the sun went away we still have the moon but we would have to wait until night to get alittle warm maybe.