The Climate

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Across
  1. 2. The action of clearing a wide area of trees
  2. 7. The degree or intensity of heat present in a substance or object
  3. 14. Periodic changes in the Earth’s climate-warming, followed by one-set of ice ages, followed by warming again; caused by irregularities in Earth’s rotation and orbit.
  4. 16. A colorless and non-flammable gas at normal temperature and pressure
  5. 17. A complex system with 5 interacting components
  6. 19. The climate conditions prevailing in an area over a long period of time
  7. 20. Human caused changes to the climate
  8. 22. A component in the carbon cycle in which carbon is stored, such as the atmosphere, oceans, biosphere, or lithosphere. Reservoirs can serve as carbon sinks or carbon sources.
  9. 24. Reducing the flow of heat-trapping greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere
  10. 26. Warming of the ocean surface (above-average sea surface temperature) in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean.
  11. 28. An idealized physical body that absorbs all incident electromagnetic radiation
Down
  1. 1. The Sun’s warmth is trapped in a planet’s lower atmosphere, because of the greater transparency of the atmosphere to the visible radiation from the sun.
  2. 3. Divides climates into 5 main climate groups
  3. 4. Process of reducing heat through a change in air pressure that is caused by volume expansion.
  4. 5. The rapid increase in the Earth’s average surface temperature over the past century due to greenhouse gasses.
  5. 6. A universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure that by 2030 all people enjoy peace and prosperity
  6. 8. Adjusting or adjusted to new conditions.
  7. 9. Relating to or characterized by worldwide change of sea level
  8. 10. A colorless gas or liquid with a strong, choking odor
  9. 11. A molecule only containing the elements hydrogen and carbon.
  10. 12. Cooling of the ocean’s surface temperatures in central and east-central equatorial Pacific.
  11. 13. The scale that measures acidity of solution based on the concentration of hydrogen ions present.
  12. 15. Precipitation with acidic components (Sulfuric or nitric acid).
  13. 18. High temperature
  14. 21. The arrangement, shape and size of geographical features of the Earth’s surface at a location.
  15. 23. Proportion of light or radiation that is reflected by a surface.
  16. 25. A nonrenewable resource formed from organic carbon due to the compression and partial decomposition of organisms.
  17. 27. Result of a collision between two landmasses.