Arctic Sinkholes
Vocabulary
I know my ABC's
200

The mostly frozen ground surface in the tundra or taiga

Permafrost

200

subterranean layer of rock permeable to water

Aquifer

200
CCC

Civilian Conservation Corps

400

The name of the flammable gas responsible for Arctic sinkholes 

Methane

400

Aquatic habitat in the ocean beyond the continental shelf

Oceanic zone

400

NPS

National Park Service

500

The mysterious 150 foot deep crater had a volume of at least 10__________________ 

Olympic Swimming Pools

500

Microscopic marine algae

Phytoplankton

500

NEPA

National Environmental Policy Act

800

The amount of warming this century, with double this amount occuring in the Arctic

2 degrees Fahrenheit

800

habitat with annual rainfall between 50 and 260 inches, constant humidity level between 77 and 90 percent and covered in trees creating a canopy

Tropical Rainforest

800

FDR

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

1000

Permafrost contains “carbon frozen in time”. The stocks of carbon in permafrost equal 1,400 billion metric tons, almost twice as much carbon as is currently in earth’s_________________________

Atmosphere

1000

Taking an area which has been degraded and rebuilding the area

Restoration

1000

CWA

Clean Water Act