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- 5. meteorological conditions
- 6. commonly known as laughing gas
- 7. A temperature gradient as in a layer of sea water
- 9. the biogeochemical cycle by which carbon is exchanged among the biosphere
- 12. the gradual increase of the temperature of the earth's lower atmosphere
- 13. el niño southern oscillation
- 14. a warm ocean current that develops after late December along the coast of Ecuador and Peru
- 15. a chemical compound with the chemical formula CH4
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- 1. A reservoir that absorbs or takes up atmospheric carbon
- 2. collective term for the processes by which rock at or near the earth's surface is disintegrated and decomposed by the action of atmospheric agents, water, and living things
- 3. An unstable, poisonous allotrope of oxygen, O3, that is formed naturally in the ozone layer
- 4. the circulation of the earth's water
- 5. change in meteorological conditions
- 8. A carbon offset is a reduction in emissions of carbon or greenhouse gases
- 10. Cyclic counterpart to El Niño
- 11. soil at or below the freezing point of water