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