Climate Change
When something stays mostly the same over time
What is stability?
To take in
What is to absorb?
Molecule made by carbon and oxygen atoms
What is carbon dioxide?
To send to a new or different place
What is to redirect?
The short ups and downs on a graph over a short period of time.
What are fluctuations?
When something becomes different over time
What is change?
The ability to make things move or change
A molecule made of carbon and hydrogen atoms
What is Methane?
A mountain that has an opening in the land where gas, lava, and/or ash is pushed out.
What is a volcano?
What is a trend?
Changes in climate over a long period of time
What is climate change?
The living and non-living components of Earth, including the water, land, and atmosphere
What is the Earth System?
A molecule made of sulfur and oxygen atoms
What is sulfur dioxide?
The measure of how hot or cold something is
What is temperature?
Information collected in an investigation
What is data?
The process of clearing trees from a land
What is deforestation?
Mixture of gases surrounding a planet
What is an atmosphere?
The process of burning fuels
What is combustion?
The sudden pushing out of something, such as lava from a volcano
What is eruption?
A proposed answer to a question
What is a claim?
To bounce off without absorbing
What is to reflect?
General weather patterns over a long period of time
What is a climate?
A measure of how much light is present
What is lux?
Things people do that effect Earth's system
What are human activities?
Information that is used to support or go against a claim
What is evidence?