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A Blanket Around the Earth

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Across
Fundamental source of energy that drives our climate system
Type of energy transfer that requires contact with the substance
What the earth will become with increased levels of carbon dioxide
Most abundant feedback gas responsible for clouds and precipitation
Hydrocarbon gas produced by livestock and decomposing landfill
By-product of fertilizers, gasoline, explosives
Once used in consumer products like hairspray
Cutting down of too many trees resulting in global warming
How the sun's energy is transferred to earth.
A _______ greenhouse effect will melt glaciers and sea ice, increasing sea levels
Type of activities modern civilization depends on that raises carbon dioxide levels
When an area becomes covered by ice for a long stretch of time
Down
The atmosphere acts like a ________ to Earth
Man-made greenhouse gas
Short energy waves radiated by the sun
Type of energy transfer in which hot air rises and cool air sinks
Gases that respond to changes in temperature
Very important long-lived gas forcing climate change
What the greenhouse gases do to energy that is radiated back to space
Blanket that covers the earth creating a greenhouse effect
Results with the melting of polar ice caps, flooding, desertification of farmlands
Warming effect resulting when atmosphere traps heat radiating from earth back to space
Long energy waves radiated by the earth back into space
CO2 is this type of greenhouse gas because of the length of time in atmosphere.
Country cut off by ice from 1410 to 1720
_____ fuels that humans burn increase CO2 in the atmosphere