Across
- 5. and Greenland.
- 7. the greenhouse effect due to
- 8. removal of carbon dioxide and oxidation of methane.
- 10. sheets- permanent layers of ice covering a tract of land,
- 11. hydrologic cycle, movement of water through evaporation, precipitation, runoff, and infiltration.
- 12. periods, glaciers growing and advancing.
- 14. and nitrogen.
- 15. a much thinner atmosphere, with no greenhouse
- 17. thin layer of gases that surrounds the air.
- 18. eruptions, release sulfur dioxide and
- 19. Earth’s atmosphere was mostly carbon
- 20. to glaciers to retreating.
Down
- 1. darker areas on the sun’s surface.
- 2. is lowered.
- 3. air we breathe.
- 4. drilled into the glaciers in
- 6. bleaching, when coral polyps eject the symbiotic algae that live with them under stressful environmental conditions.
- 7. that scatter solar radiation.
- 9. dry and less dense layer.
- 13. periods, the overall climate is warmer,
- 16. of time where Earth’s overall surface
