Climate Vocab

What is the trapping of the sun's warmth in a planet's lower atmosphere called?

• Greenhouse Gas

• Greenhouse Curtain

• Greenhouse Effect

• Greenhouse Heater

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NGSS.HS-ESS2-4

Ocean Acidification

• the natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism.

• the removal of a forest or stand of trees from land which is then converted to a non-forest use.

• fog or haze combined with smoke and other atmospheric pollutants.

• the ongoing decrease in the pH of the Earth's oceans, caused by the uptake of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

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NGSS.HS-ESS3-5

NGSS.HS-ESS2-6

The natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism.

• House

• Habitat

• Plain

• Cave

The removal of a forest or stand of trees from land which is then converted to a non-forest use.

• Deforestation

• Devastation

• Disagree

• Demolition

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Check all that could be a Fossil Fuel

• Plutonium

• Gas

• Electricity

• Coal

an imaginary line drawn around the earth equally distant from both poles, dividing the earth into northern and southern hemispheres and located at 0 degrees latitude

• Earth great divider

• Ecuador

• equator

• game changer

Any form of water that falls from clouds and reaches Earth's surface.

• evaporation

• precipitation

• condensation

• transpiration

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Distance north or south of the equator

• Latitude

• Altitude

• Distance from Large Body of Water

• Ocean Currents

Elevation above sea level

• Latitude

• Altitude

• Distance from Large Body of Water

• Ocean Currents

the conditions of the atmosphere at a given time and place

• front

• climate

• weather

• cumulous clouds

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5