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Weather and Climate
Greenhouse Effect
History of Climate Change
Measuring and Observing Weather
Ice Cores
100
It is "what you get".
What is weather?
100
The most important human-influenced greenhouse gas.
What is carbon dioxide?
100
Scientists believe these are one of the best indicators of climate change.
What are glaciers?
100
This tool is used to measure precipitation.
What is a rain gauge?
100
Pollutants found in ice cores can come from humans, forest fires and these.
What are volcanoes?
200
It is "what you expect".
What is climate?
200
This gets trapped in our atmosphere, causing a warming effect on Earth.
What is heat?
200
Not just an animated movie, this is a period of time when glaciers dominate the landscape on Earth.
What is an ice age?
200
Meteorologists use this too measure the wind's direction.
What is a weather vane?
200
This carries dust, salt, and pollutants and distributes it on ice.
What is the wind?
300
The element that determines weather conditions in addition to air pressure, wind, and moisture.
What is wind?
300
A 19 letter word...these are pollutants caused by human activities.
What are chlorofluorocarbons?
300
Scientists believe there have been this many ice ages.
What is 8?
300
These carry special sensors that detect and measure radiation signals given off by Earth.
What are weather satellites?
300
Scientists can find these trapped in the air bubbles of an ice core.
What are greenhouse gases?
400
The standard period of time for determining a region's climate.
What is 30 years?
400
Ozone traps this kind of light in the upper atmosphere.
What is ultraviolet?
400
The period of time during an ice age when the climate is warmer.
What are interglacials?
400
Large floating object filled with helium that is used to supplement info from weather satellites.
What is a weather balloon?
400
Scientists drill into these to recover old ice.
What are glaciers?
500
The type of climate you would find a rainforest in.
What is tropical?
500
This greenhouse gas is produced by the burning of fossil fuels.
What is carbon dioxide?
500
Earth's surface has warmed by this many degrees during the 20th century.
What is 1?
500
Found in ocean, these monitor information such as air and water temperature, wave height, etc.
What are weather buoys?
500
The name for scientists who research what the Earth's climate was like in the past.
What is a paleoclimatologist?