ClimAtE cHaNGeEe

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Across
  1. 2. Dioxide: a heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances; absorbed from the air by plants in photosynthesis
  2. 4. effect: warming when solar radiation is trapped by the atmosphere
  3. 5. Fuel: energy-producing substance derived from preserved organisms
  4. 8. watery layer of the earth's surface
  5. 10. gradual transformation into arid, uninhabitable land
  6. 12. radiation: radiation from the sun
  7. 13. the weather in some location averaged over a period of time
  8. 14. conditions such as temperature and precipitation
  9. 16. Change:a change in the world's weather patterns over time
Down
  1. 1. the regions of the Earth where living organisms exist
  2. 3. substance that is released
  3. 6. falling to earth of any form of water
  4. 7. gas: a gas that contributes to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation
  5. 9. movement of heat by massive motion within the atmosphere sion of heat or electricity or sound
  6. 11. the mass of air surrounding the Earth
  7. 15. warming: a rise in the average temperature of the earth's atmosphere