Across
- 4. refers to any action taken by governments, businesses, or people to reduce or prevent greenhouse gas emissions.
- 5. a threshold after which certain changes caused by global warming and climate change become irreversible.
- 7. overall increase in worldwide temperatures caused by rising greenhouse emissions
- 8. energy derived from natural sources that are constantly being replenished, such as wind, sunlight, the flow of moving water, and geothermal heat.
- 9. species that are close to extinction.
Down
- 1. means reducing the amount of greenhouse gas emissions that a society produces, as well as increasing the amount that is being absorbed.
- 2. gases that trap heat from the sun in our planet’s atmosphere, keeping it warm.
- 3. the amount of carbon that an organization or person produces in any given time.
- 6. long-term changes in the Earth’s climate that are warming the atmosphere, ocean and land.
- 10. the mass restoration of ecosystems that have been damaged by human activity.