White Hat Task - Crossword

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Across
  1. 1. The percentage by which snow cover in the Arctic has been reduced in May and June. ( _ _ _ _ _ _ )
  2. 5. An extending mass of ice formed from snow falling and accumulating over the years. ( _ _ _ _ _ _ _ )
  3. 6. A period in time when the world was covered in ice. ( _ _ _ - _ _ _ )
  4. 8. any of the gases whose absorption of solar radiation is responsible for the greenhouse effect. ( _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ - _ _ _ _ _ )
  5. 10. Large quantities of this is stored in the permafrost in the Arctic. ( _ _ _ _ _ _ )
  6. 11. A season which has become two weeks shorter in the Arctic because of Global Warming. ( _ _ _ _ _ _ )
  7. 13. A large country in the Northern Hemisphere with the USA as a neighbouring country. ( _ _ _ _ _ _ )
  8. 14. The part of the Earth that is warming up the fastest today. ( _ _ _ _ _ _ )
  9. 15. A greenhouse gas over 20 times more powerful than carbon dioxide. ( _ _ _ _ _ _ _ )
  10. 16. The affect which Global Warming has on ice and snow. ( _ _ _ _ _ _ _ )
Down
  1. 1. Vast, flat, treeless plains in the arctic regions of Europe, Asia and North-America. (_ _ _ _ _ _)
  2. 2. The century which is predicted to have sea levels 0.9 to 1.6 metres higher than the present. ( _ _ _ _ _ _ - _ _ _ _ _ _ )
  3. 3. This is what happens to sea levels when large amounts of ice is melted ( _ _ _ _ )
  4. 4. the environmental issue affecting the whole world currently. ( _ _ _ _ _ _ - _ _ _ _ _ _ _ )
  5. 7. All the plants or plant life of a place, taken as a whole. ( _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ )
  6. 9. The type of material "deep frozen" in the ground during the last ice-age. ( _ _ _ _ _ _ _ )
  7. 12. A form of vegetation whose trunk can be used as a form of measurement for temperature. ( _ _ _ _ _ )