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