Across
- 2. A climate pattern that describes the unusual warming of surface waters in the eastern Pacific Ocean
- 5. Which scientific agency provides accurate and up-to-date information on weather and climate?
- 7. The US currently averages 1 weather disaster a month that costs over __ ____ dollars
- 9. Governmental agency tasked with providing weather forecasts and warnings of hazardous weather
- 11. Extreme weather events are made more intense by the ___ ____ of the earth's surface temperature
Down
- 1. These are the kinds of countries that will suffer the most from extreme weather events
- 3. Extreme weather events create a ___ feedback loop where the outcomes cause worse weather
- 4. This is the type of light radiation reflected by greenhouse gases that cause the heating of the atmosphere
- 6. Even though it is called global warming, some places will start to experience worse ____ weather events
- 8. The average wildfire size has more than ____ since 2010
- 10. There are ___ forms of extreme weather
