The condition of a place
(precipitation, wind, etc),
at any given time
What is weather?
The two seasons that have the lowest sea ice.
What is summer and fall?
This is the name for an area of ice spanning long distances over land.
What are ice sheets?
The measure of how much snow lays on earth's surface.
What is snow cover?
The global water height
What is sea level?
The term for when gases in the atmosphere trap heat so it cant leave.
What is the greenhouse effect?
What is one reason why Arctic sea ice is melting faster than before?
What is global warming?
Number one way humans impact global temperature affecting ice sheets.
What are fossil fuels?
This data shows that the snow has been doing this between 1945-2025
What is decreasing?
One source of water that is contributing to rising sea levels comes from these floating masses of ice on land.
What are glaciers?
This season on the chart shows the largest temperature change in the most recent year
What is winter
This season now shows the lowest extent of Arctic sea ice, according to satellite records.
What is summer?
This item is used to measure weather/natural events from hundreds of thousands of years ago.
What is ice core
Snow and glaciers can do this to incoming sunlight.
What is reflect?
This level has risen 103 millimeters from 1993 to 2025.
What is sea level rise?
This natural factor can influence river flooding.
What is precipitation?
These two large mammals rely on sea ice for survival.
What are polar bears and walruses?
This country is losing 267 billion tons of ice a year
What is Greenland?
This continent has the greatest area covered by snow and ice year-round.
What is Antarctica?
This city in Louisiana is famous for being below sea level.
What is New Orleans?
This revolution happened not long before a large spike in temp.
What is the industrial revolution?
A remote way to measure the arctic sea ice extent and thickness.
What are satellite observations?
This underlying surface supports continental ice sheets like those in Greenland and Antarctica.
What is land?
From March 2000 to March 2025, the data in the graph shows this kind of trend in ice coverage.
This is decrease or increase of ice from march 2000 to march of 2025.
What is a decreasing trend?
Sea levels began rising significantly during this century.
What is the 20th century?