Across
- 2. Increase in ocean height caused by melting ice and thermal expansion
- 3. Frozen ground found in polar regions
- 4. Layer of gases surrounding Earth
- 9. West African nation facing coastal erosion from sea level rise
- 12. System where an effect amplifies or reduces its own cause
- 13. Energy trapped in Earth’s atmosphere by greenhouse gases
- 14. Massive river of ice that moves slowly over land
- 15. Earth’s solid parts like rocks and soil
- 16. U.S. state losing land due to rising seas and wetland loss
- 18. Greenhouse gas produced by burning fossil fuels
- 19. Measure of how much sunlight a surface reflects
Down
- 1. Bright particles made of silica proposed to reflect sunlight and slow melting
- 5. What happens when permafrost or ice warms up and melts
- 6. Mineral used in experiments to make ice more reflective
- 7. Permanently frozen water parts of Earth’s system (ice sheets, glaciers, sea ice)
- 8. Type of feedback that strengthens a process (warming causes more warming)
- 10. Famous Greenland glacier melting rapidly
- 11. Sphere containing all living things on Earth
- 17. Type of region most at risk from sea level rise