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- 2. When a hemisphere is facing the sun
- 4. Temperature data prior to the 19th century
- 5. Contains the air we breathe and every aspect of what we call weather.
- 7. Southern Oscillation cycle is a periodic warming and cooling of surface ocean temperatures in the Pacific Ocean.
- 8. Gas that is found in small quantities in the atmosphere.
- 9. The process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize foods from carbon dioxide and water.
- 12. Frozen seawater that floats on the ocean’s surface.
- 13. Involves adjusting our lives and society to the expected future climate.
- 14. Was a period of cooling that lasted from the 16th-19th centuries.
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- 1. An important heat-trapping gas, or greenhouse gas
- 3. Are any permanent layers of ice covering a tract of land, especially in the polar regions.
- 6. Is a very dry and less dense layer above the troposphere.
- 10. Strategies are designed to reduce emissions and stabilize the levels of greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere.
- 11. Was chosen to avoid the influences of large forests or cities.
- 15. The study of intentionally and artificially changing natural processes of the Earth.