Across
- 2. The transfer of energy through matter or space as electromagnetic waves (visible light or infrared)
- 5. air pressure
- 6. destroying the atmosphere
- 10. 1%
- 13. coldest layer and meteorites burn up
- 14. wind direction
- 15. hottest layer and Aurora borealis
- 18. the amount of precipitation
- 19. 11.9 and major greenhouse gases that naturally occur in the atmosphere
- 21. a form of oxygen gas, absorbs ultraviolet rays form the sun and then releases some of this energy in the form of heat.
- 22. wind speed
- 24. 6.0% and major greenhouse gases that naturally occur in the atmosphere
- 25. 0.8% and major greenhouse gases that naturally occur in the atmosphere
Down
- 1. most water and weather occurs and lowest layer
- 3. 21%
- 4. trap heat in the atmosphere, which makes the Earth warmer.
- 7. ozone layer is located there
- 8. An increase in the average temperature of the earth's atmosphere, especially a sustained increase sufficient to cause climatic change.
- 9. the way in which heat is trapped close to the surface of the Earth by “greenhouse gases.”
- 11. 17.0% and major greenhouse gases that naturally occur in the atmosphere
- 12. temperature
- 16. the atmospheric temperature (varying according to pressure and humidity) below which water droplets begin to condense and dew can form.
- 17. 64.3% and most important greenhouse gas emitted by humans, but several other gases contribute to climate change
- 20. essential to life on earth and a mixture of gases that surrounds Earth
- 23. 78%
