Once upon a time, there was a little girl named Nikki. She loved playing outside in the sun. One day, she noticed that it was getting hotter and hotter outside.
She asked her father why it was so hot. Her father explained that the sun was shining down on Earth and warming it up. But some of the heat was getting trapped inside Earth’s atmosphere by gases like carbon dioxide and methane. This is called the greenhouse effect.
It’s like when you go into a greenhouse where plants grow. The glass walls trap the heat inside so that the plants can grow even when it’s cold outside .
Nikki understood that the greenhouse effect is a process that occurs when gases in Earth’s atmosphere trap the Sun’s heat. This process makes Earth much warmer than it would be without an atmosphere. The greenhouse effect is one of the things that makes Earth a comfortable place to live.
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