Across
- 2. warming when solar radiation is trapped by the atmosphere.
- 4. a substance that pollutes something
- 6. a form of air pollution caused by burning fossil fuels.
- 7. rainfall made sufficiently acidic by atmospheric pollution that it causes environmental harm, typically to forests and lakes.
- 10. this is melting because of global warming
- 13. a low density gas that use is usually in the upper atmosphere
- 15. is a result of earth air drastically heating up
- 16. the amount of water vapor in the air
- 17. the most abundant gas
- 21. a greenhouse gas that hold the most heat and cows and other farming animals produce it
- 22. the outer part of the atmosphere
- 24. height above sea level or the earth's surface
- 25. the lowest layer of the atmosphere in which temperature decreases at a constant rate as altitude increases
- 27. the process of cutting down trees and forests
Down
- 1. the main greenhouse gas in our atmosphere
- 3. a term for a gas formed in the geological past from the remains of living organisms.
- 5. a mixture of gases that surrounds Earth
- 8. the transfer of heat energy by the movement of molecules from one place to another through a liquid or gas.
- 9. The middle layer of Earth’s atmosphere where most meteoroids burn up.
- 11. the layer of the atmosphere that is above the troposphere and in which temperature increases as altitude increases
- 12. the presence in or introduction into the environment of a substance or thing that has harmful or poisonous effects mainly by human activity
- 14. the most abundant greenhouse gas in your atmosphere
- 18. a thin part of the Earth's atmosphere that absorbs almost all of the sun's harmful ultraviolet light.
- 19. the least abundant greenhouse gas out of the main three
- 20. The measure of the force with which air molecules push on a surface
- 23. high-speed air in the atmosphere, found in the stratosphere. It affects air masses and affects aircraft by speeding or slowing their path
- 26. the most vital gas that is used for human life
