Climate Change Crossword
Across
- 4. Anything that is manmade.
- 5. The Earth is 4.6_______ years old.
- 7. A human cause of climate change by farming, growing crops and cattle.
- 10. A human change of climate change by cutting down trees.
- 12. Anything that occurs without human input/influence.
- 13. The name for oil in it's thick black form.
- 14. Geologic period that lasted from 145 - 66 million years ago. Saw the end of the dinosaurs.
- 15. These contribute to global warming by ejecting lots of ash and gases.
- 16. The man to discovered how to generate an electric current in 1831.
- 18. The word used to describe the greenhouse effect when humans contribute to it.
- 20. The tilt of the Earth. Changes every 41,000 years.
- 21. A greenhouse gas that is emitted from cows in various ways. Chemical formula CH4.
- 22. The most recent geological time period which began 2.5 million years ago.
Down
- 1. The effect that keeps the planet warm. Named after a glass building.
- 2. The gradual change in the Earth's average temperature and weather.
- 3. A type of fuel made from the remains of dead organisms.
- 6. A compound of hydrogen and carbon, which most oil is made of.
- 8. The gradual heating of the Earth.
- 9. The name for the orbit of a planet when it is an oval.
- 11. Geologic period noted for containing Snowball Earth.
- 17. When the Earth is cool enough to sustain ice at the poles.
- 19. When the Earth's temperature is high enough to prevent the formation of ice.