About Greenhouse Effect
How do greenhouse gases affect the climate? Explore the atmosphere during the ice age and today. What happens when you add clouds? Change the greenhouse gas concentration and see how the temperature changes.
How to play Greenhouse Effect
Everything is hands-on: drag, click and experiment — the simulation reacts instantly. How do greenhouse gases affect the climate?
Questions & answers
- What is Greenhouse Effect?
- Greenhouse Effect is a free interactive simulation from PhET Interactive Simulations (University of Colorado Boulder) that you can play right in your browser on crumble.lol — no downloads and no sign-up. How do greenhouse gases affect the climate? Explore the atmosphere during the ice age and today.
- What can kids learn from Greenhouse Effect?
- It helps kids explore: describe the effect of greenhouse gases and clouds on sunlight, infrared radiation, and surface temperature. explain why greenhouse gases affect the temperature. compare and contrast the behavior of sunlight and infrared radiation. describe radiative balance and use it to explain the relationship between the surface temperature and greenhouse gas concentration. compare the effect of greenhouse gases to the effect of infrared absorbing layers.
- What age is Greenhouse Effect good for?
- It is designed for elementary school (roughly ages 5–10) up to university, and curious kids outside that range can absolutely enjoy poking around it too.
- Is Greenhouse Effect free to play?
- Yes — Greenhouse Effect is completely free on crumble.lol and runs fully in your browser on computers and tablets.