Deforestation
The cutting down of trees for land or wood.
What is deforestation?
What is pollution?
The sun causes this process that turns water into vapor.
What is evaporation?
Shaking of the ground caused by moving plates.
What is an earthquake?
The Earth's average temperature is doing this.
What is rising?
Animals lose this when forests are destroyed.
What is their habitat?
This type of pollution comes from cars and factories.
What is air pollution?
Water vapor cools and forms clouds in this process.
What is condensation?
What is a hurricane?
This gas traps heat and adds to warming.
What is carbon dioxide?
Deforestation causes less of this gas that we breathe.
What is oxygen?
Wasting electricity increases use of this.
What are fossil fuels?
This happens when water falls as rain, snow, sleet, and hail.
What is precipitation?
A snowstorm with strong winds and heavy snow.
What is a blizzard?
This melts because of warming temperatures.
What are glaciers or polar ice?
Two common reasons people cut down forests.
What are farming and building?
When trash harms sea animals, it's an example of this.
What is human impact on wildlife?
Water that flows over land into rivers and streams.
What is runoff?
A mountain that erupts with lava and ash.
These fuels, when burned, release greenhouse gases.
What are fossil fuels?
How cutting trees adds to climate change.
What is increasing carbon dioxide?
Three ways people can reduce their harm to the earth.
The release of water vapor from plants into the air.
A tool scientists use to warn people before disasters happen.
What is a prediction or early warning system?
Global warming can cause more of this kind of weather.
What is extreme weather?