climate change

2. areas of the ocean to promote algae growth.
6. the study of intentionally and artificially changing natural processes of the Earth.
8. reflective molecules that would be injected into the stratosphere.
9. very dry and less dense layer above the troposphere
10. describes the movement of water through evaporation, precipitation, runoff, and infiltration.
14. weakened the greenhouse effect due to the removal of carbon dioxide and oxidation of methane.
16. the process of capturing carbon dioxide produced from large point sources, such as coal-burning power plants and depositing it underground.
17. involves adjusting our lives and society to the expected future climate.
18. frozen seawater that floats on the ocean’s surface.
19. any permanent layers of ice covering a tract of land, especially in the polar regions.
20. of areas that have been clear cut.

1. has the paradoxical effect of increasing the rate of both drought and heavy precipitation events.
3. formed as more ice is laid down each year.
4. thin layer of gases that surrounds the earth.
5. a period of time where the Earth’s overall surface temperature is lowered enough that glaciers form at the poles and in mountainous areas.
7. uses reflective surface materials to reflect more back into space.
11. a period of cooling that lasted from the 16th-19th centuries.
12. would be set on the maximum amount of carbon pollution that can be produced by a single facility.
13. strategies are designed to reduce emissions and stabilize the levels of greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere.
15. absorbs and scatters ultraviolet radiation