Climate Change

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Across
  1. 6. 97% of this type of person agrees that climate change is happening
  2. 8. is emitted when people add fertilizer to the soil
  3. 11. Water _______ is the only greenhouse gas that is not directly anthropogenic
  4. 12. According to this organization 20-30% of the species on this planet will go extinct by the end of the century
  5. 14. the place where a polar bear lives underground
  6. 15. a penguin that is in decline because of climate change
  7. 16. Something that is caused by human activity
  8. 18. can tell us about the climate for hundreds of thousand of years
  9. 20. A gas that comes from cow farts and burps
  10. 22. the study of ancient climates
  11. 25. a penguin that is increasing in numbers in Antarctica
  12. 28. a type of expansion that happens when heat causes water to increase in volume
  13. 29. _________ glacier- when chunks of ice break off the edge of a glacier
  14. 30. a southeastern state that is vanishing because of sea level rise
  15. 31. a small shrimp like creature that lives underneath the sea ice
  16. 32. _________ glacier- a glacier that moves back from it's original position
  17. 33. a type of ring that informs us of the climate hundreds of years ago
Down
  1. 1. 2/3 of the worlds freshwater is trapped here
  2. 2. a national park that is located in Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana
  3. 3. someone who studies birds
  4. 4. A greenhouse gas that is released when we burn "dirty" forms of energy
  5. 5. A term used to describe something that holds onto carbon
  6. 6. A term used to describe something that releases carbon
  7. 7. an area of land that is flooded with water
  8. 9. Is responsible for trapping pollution in coastal cities
  9. 10. When gases in the atmosphere trap sunlight and warm the planet
  10. 13. Refers to looking at weather in the long term
  11. 17. Climate ________ is causing the ice to melt which doesn't let the bears walk out onto it to hunt for food.
  12. 19. this organism makes reefs that tell us about the oceans climate
  13. 21. when something doesn't get enough food. One of the main reasons why polar bears are declining.
  14. 23. someone who studies Earth's atmosphere
  15. 24. The layer of the atmosphere that we live in
  16. 26. bees make honey with this and when found in ice it informs us of what type of plants were growing in the past
  17. 27. a species that has a large effect on its environment relative to its abundance