Across
- 3. these are in danger due to global warming, and will decrease the ocean's salinity
- 4. the drastic increase of the overall temperature of the earth
- 5. this may rise as a result of global warming and affect coastlines
- 9. this accounted for taking down the biggest part of the amazon rain forest
- 10. least dense atmospheric later
- 12. atmospheric layer containing the ozone layer
- 13. the atmospheric layer most meteors burn up in when entering our atmosphere
- 14. most abundant gas in the air we breathe
- 18. as you move up the stratosphere, this increases
- 20. the thin space in between atmospheric layers
- 21. most dense layer of the atmosphere
- 23. increasing this will decrease pressure and density in the atmosphere
- 24. type of rays blocked by the ozone layer that can cause cancer
- 25. water vapor and steam on earth originally came from this
Down
- 1. a type of gas in earths atmosphere that helps to trap heat from the sun
- 2. accounts for 60% of earth's greenhouse effect
- 6. gas produced through photosynthesis
- 7. this gas breaks down the ozone layer and caused a hole in it awhile ago
- 8. man made gases that were made for use in refrigeration systems
- 11. this is what we use to refer to the outside of the atmosphere
- 15. mainly comes from burning of fossil fuels
- 16. gas that comes from human and animal waste, especially in cows
- 17. when gases in the ozone layer grow too abundant and thermal energy can't reach the earth (second word is abbreviated)
- 19. something caused by humans that causes an area to lose habitats, oxygen, rainfall, and have increased rates of erosion
- 22. when natural resources like air and water are clouded due to human impacts