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- 3. The lateral movement of continents resulting from the motion of crustal plates.
- 5. Any environment or medium that absorbs heat.
- 6. The solid portion of the earth.
- 10. A statement about the likelihood that something will happen several decades to centuries in the future if certain influential conditions develop.
- 12. An amendment to the United Nations international treaty on global warming in which participating nations commit to reducing their emissions of carbon dioxide.
- 14. The path by which some of the output of a circuit, system, or device is returned to the input.
- 16. Occasion when the world talks about Global Warming.
- 21. Is a geological interval of warmer global average temperature lasting thousands of years that separate time within an ice age.
- 22. The ratio of the light reflected by a planet or satellite to that received by it.
- 27. Electromagnetic radiation with longer wavelengths than those of visible light.
- 28. Comes from the sun and man-made sources like tanning beds.
- 29. Renewable energy generates electricity from sustainable sources like wind, solar, and geothermal power with little or no pollution or global warming emissions.
- 30. The composite or generally prevailing weather conditions of a region, as temperature, air pressure, humidity, precipitation, sunshine, cloudiness, and winds, throughout the year, averaged over a series of years.
- 31. The transfer of heat by the mass movement of heated particles into an area of cooler fluid.
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- 1. Graphical representation of climate and related indices on a site-by-site basis for historical and future time periods.
- 2. Are preserved physical characteristics of the past that stand in for direct measurements.
- 4. Is the energy a substance or system has related to its temperature.
- 7. Is a measure of how much of the Sun's energy is reflected back into space.
- 8. Part of the large-scale ocean circulation that is driven by global density created by surface heat and freshwater fluxes.
- 9. Any of the gases whose absorption of solar radiation is responsible for the greenhouse effect, including carbon dioxide, methane, ozone, and the fluorocarbons.
- 11. Emission of greenhouse gases caused by humans.
- 13. The glacial epoch.
- 15. The state of the atmosphere with respect to wind, temperature, cloudiness, moisture, pressure, etc.
- 16. Global Warming.
- 17. Lessening the force or intensity of something unpleasant, as wrath, pain, grief, or extreme circumstances.
- 18. The gaseous envelope surrounding the earth; the air.
- 19. A theory of in, which the lithosphere is divided into an umber of crustal plates.
- 20. Is the tendency of matter to change in volume in response to a change in temperature, through heat transfer.
- 23. Areas of vegetation, especially forests, and the phytoplankton-rich seas that absorb the carbon dioxide produced by the burning of fossil fuels.
- 24. Complex, interactive system consisting of the atmosphere, land surface, snow and ice, oceans and other bodies of water, and living things.
- 25. The water on or surrounding the surface of the globe, including the water of the oceans and the water in the atmosphere.
- 26. A warm ocean current of variable intensity that develops after late December along the coast of Ecuador and Peru and sometimes causes catastrophic weather conditions.