Everything in this flashcard set.
- carbon dioxide
- A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic
- light
- What lets us see; the opposite of dark
- glaciers
- A slowly moving mass of ice (plural)
- floods
- The rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land (plural)
- nitrous oxide
- Inhalation anesthetic used as an anesthetic in dentistry and surgery
- science
- Study of the natural world through experiments
- hurricanes
- A severe tropical cyclone usually with heavy rains and winds moving at 63-136 knots (plural)
- methane
- A colorless odorless gas used as a fuel
- fresh water
- Water that is not salty
- coral reef
- A ___ consisting of ___ consolidated into limestone
- vulnerable
- Susceptible to attack
- droughts
- A shortage of rainfall (plural)
- climate change
- A ___ in the world's ___
- polar bears
- Large white-furred mammals native to the Arctic.
- disasters
- An event resulting in great loss and misfortune (plural)
- temperature
- How hot or cold something is
- heat
- Energy that makes things warm
- sun
- The star our planet orbits