Social Science

4. Factors that are external to the climate system and influence climate change
5. A new approaching to studying the world, based on the interaction between the major four subsystems:Geosphere, Hydrosphere, Atmosphere, Biosphere
9. In ESS, a phenomenon where climate change causes a natural reaction that increases climate change in the same way. Melting Ice
10. Higher concentrations of gases (CO2, methane, water vapor) that trap heat and warm the planet’s surface
12. all the water in, on, and around the Earth in various forms
14. Also Known as the Lithosphere the earth and rock that comprise the Earth
15. all ice on Earth

1. Patterns of the Earth’s movement in relation to the sun, at intervals of 100,000, 41,000, and 26,000 years resulting in ice ages when they line up.
2. In ESS, a phenomenon where climate change causes a natural reaction that acts against the original direction of the climate change.
3. the layers of gases encircling the Earth
6. Measure of time based on the record of rocks in which change is sometimesmeasured at the pace of millions or even billions of years
7. A geological epoch that started around 2.58 million years ago and was characterized by cycles of ice ages and interglacials
8. geological interglacial (warm) period that began around 11,700 years ago, at the end of the last ice age
11. A proposed new epoch starting from 1950, based on unprecedented human-driven climate change
13. all living organisms in and on the Earth