Across
- 2. the removal of large amounts of forest that speeds up global warming
- 5. the hottest atmospheric layer
- 7. required by plants to use Photosynthesis
- 10. the warming up of the Earth with gases in the atmosphere
- 11. more potent than carbon dioxide and created during digestion processes of livestock
- 13. rays from the Sun that are used to heat the Earth, but they are very dangerous
- 14. when the air is full of water vapor
- 18. the phenomenon of the atmosphere heating up significantly over the years
- 19. large body of air with uniform temperature and moisture content
- 21. required for humans/animals to survive
- 22. the most abundant natural greenhouse gas
- 23. makes up .8% of the greenhouse gases
- 24. the general day to day conditions in an area
- 25. the most abundant element in the atmosphere
Down
- 1. the area of which a air mass formed above
- 3. the most dense layer and where most weather and water is located; life is here
- 4. caused by global warming and is causing the waters to become less salty at the poles over time
- 6. the coldest layer of the atmosphere
- 8. protects us by absorbing most of the Sun's deadly UV rays
- 9. the term used to describe all of the remaining gases that come together to make .1% of the atmosphere
- 12. air plane pilots prefer to fly in this layer
- 15. a measure of the amount of water vapor in the air
- 16. the average temperatures and precipitation of an area over a year
- 17. makes up 6% of the greenhouse gases
- 20. the weight of all the air pressing down on the surface of the Earth