Across
- 3. Blanket of gases which surrounds Earth
- 4. violent rotating column of air extending from a thunderstorm to the ground
- 6. Meteorological phenomenon that is caused by reflection, refraction, and dispersion of light in water droplets resulting in a spectrum of light
- 11. global ecosystem composed by living organisms
- 12. chemical element that allows humans to breath
- 14. A thin part of the Earth's atmosphere that absorbs almost all of the sun's harmful ultraviolet light
- 15. Simple human activity that could help reduce climate change
- 16. The introduction of harmful materials into the environment.
- 17. Responsable for deforestation
- 22. The path that all water follows as it moves around Earth in different states
- 24. The meteorological condition of clouds obscuring at least 95% of the sky
- 25. Place where an organism makes its home
- 27. Major adverse event resulting from natural processes of the Earth
- 28. The day-to-day temperature and precipitation activity
- 29. Organisms that are threatened by extinction.
- 30. Reason why agricultural growth and generation of jobs influence deforestation for humans
Down
- 1. The long-term heating of Earth's climate system
- 2. The result of cutting down trees
- 5. Moving air
- 7. It is the manifestation of thermal energy, present in all matter
- 8. The action of breathing that can be affected by pollution
- 9. Water that collects as droplets on a cold surface when humid air is in contact with it
- 10. The form of energy that is transferred between systems or objects with different temperatures. Also referred to as thermal energy
- 13. Gases that trap heat in the atmosphere and warm the planet
- 18. Weather event such as snow, rain, drought, flood, or storm that is rare for the place where it occurs
- 19. The cycle affected by deforestation in which carbon atoms continually travel from the atmosphere to the Earth
- 20. Change in the usual weather found in a place
- 21. The invisible gaseous substance surrounding the earth, a mixture mainly of oxygen and nitrogen
- 23. The force exerted by an air mass is created by the molecules that make it up and their size, motion, and number present in the air
- 26. Action that causes damage and it's what humans do to ecosystems
