Practice AP Environmental Science questions on greenhouse-gas threats, sea-level rise, melting ice, disease vectors, migration, and population change.
Human activities generate large amounts of solid waste, including organic waste. The decomposition of organic waste in landfills can result in the release of methane into the atmosphere.
Describe one environmental problem associated with the release of methane into the atmosphere.
There are biological and physical factors that can affect the decomposition of the solid waste in a landfill and the release of methane in the atmosphere.
1 point the atmosphere.
Accept one of the following:
- It traps heat effectively leading to climate change/global warming.
- The greenhouse effect is enhanced, increasing global temperatures/warming.
- It is a greenhouse gas, which leads to climate change/global warming.
- It is a greenhouse gas, which leads to melting ice/rising sea levels.