Seasons
This is the cause of the seasons
What is the tilt of the earth?
It is the chemical symbol for water.
What is H2O?
Less than 10 inches of rain fall each year in this climate type.
What is a desert?
The most abundant greenhouse gas in the atmosphere.
What is CO2?
This is what powers the water cycle and the wind.
What is the sun?
This is the season it is in Australia when it is summer in Canada.
What is winter?
The gas that is absorbed by trees.
What is CO2?
A warm, humid climate near the equator.
What us tropical?
It's used to power televisions and appliances and is the second largest source of CO2 emissions.
What is electricity?
Burning these is the greatest contributor to greenhouse gasses in our atmosphere.
What are fossil fuels?
This latitude does not have seasons.
What is the equator?
This greenhouse gas is produced mostly by cows.
What is methane gas?
A tropical place that has many trees and lots of precipitation.
What is a rainforest?
What is transportation?
These arctic giants are losing their habitat and places to hunt due to rising temperatures.
What are polar bears?
It is this season when our hemisphere tilts toward the sun.
What is summer?
Not a greenhouse gas, it makes up 78% of our atmosphere.
What is nitrogen?
It is the largest heat reservoir and absorbs a lot of CO2.
What is the ocean?
This happened around 1860 and is when the U.S. really began to burn a lot of fossil fuel.
What is the industrial revolution?
These funny people, with big red noses and giant shoes, are also losing habitat in the arctic?
What are arctic clowns? or polar clowns?
This hemisphere receives the least amount of sun on December 21.
What is the northern hemisphere?
These are 4 greenhouse gasses.
What is water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide.
Most of the soil in this climate type is permanently frozen (permafrost).
What is tundra?
It is when large amounts of trees are removed.
What is deforestation?
A long period of earth cooling in which ice sheets cover vast areas of Earth's surface.
What is an Ice Age?