atmospheric layers
The lowest layer of the atmosphere, where all weather occurs and we live
What is the Troposphere?
The practice of reducing overall energy consumption by consciously changing human habits and behaviors.
What is Energy Conservation?
The way climate change is affecting individual organisms and their ecosystems, causing habitat destruction and changing migration patterns.
What is habitat destruction and changing migration patterns?
A practice that helps reduce carbon in the atmosphere, such as planting trees.
What is planting trees?
The average weather conditions over a long period of time.
What is Climate?
This layer is where meteors burn up and is the coldest layer of the atmosphere
What is the Mesosphere?
This is what energy-efficient appliances do compared to older models.
What is they require less energy?
This process occurs when ocean water absorbs excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
What is Ocean Acidification?
Strategies designed to lower greenhouse gas emissions to slow down future climate change.
What is Mitigation?
The movements of air caused by differences in temperature, which are the main cause of global wind patterns.
What are Convection Currents?
This layer contains the ozone layer, which absorbs harmful UV radiation from the Sun.
What is the Stratosphere?
The long-term shift in global or regional weather patterns.
What is Climate Change?
The effect of ocean acidification on shell-building organisms like mussels and oysters.
What is it makes their shells dissolve?
Indirect evidence, such as ice cores and tree rings, used by scientists to study past climates.
What is a Proxy Indicator?
The day-to-day atmospheric conditions in a specific time and place.
What is Weather?
The hottest layer of the atmosphere, where the Space Station orbits.
What is the Thermosphere?
The main way that deforestation contributes to climate change
What is reducing the number of trees that can absorb CO2?
phenomenon where warming ocean waters stress corals, causing them to lose the algae they depend on for food.
What is Coral Bleaching?
Advanced computer programs that simulate Earth’s climate systems to help predict future climate shifts.
What are Climate Models?
The natural process where greenhouse gases trap heat in the atmosphere.
What is the Greenhouse Effect?
The outermost layer of Earth’s atmosphere that gradually fades into space.
What is the Exosphere?
The time period when human reliance on fossil fuels began to increase sharply.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
A possible future threat to human health caused by climate change due to the spread of disease vectors, such as ticks and mosquitoes.
What is the spread of ticks and mosquitoes/increasing diseases?
The reason forests and soil are important in fighting climate change.
What is they can absorb a large amount of CO2 from the atmosphere?
The term for strategies aimed at adjusting and responding to the current and unavoidable effects of climate change.
What is Adaptation?