Global Warming

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Write the missing letters on the lines to finish each word.

1.
l o b l r m i n g
An increase in the average temperature of the earth's atmosphere
2.
l i m a t
The prevailing psychological state
3.
t m p r a r e
How hot or cold something is
4.
g r e n u s g a s
5.
e i s i o n
The release of electrons from parent atoms (plural)
6.
w a h e r
Whether it's rainy, sunny or windy outside
7.
y h o n s
8.
h r r c a n s
A severe tropical cyclone usually with heavy rains and winds moving at 63-136 knots (plural)
9.
t o r d s
10.
l o o s
The rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land (plural)
11.
d r o u t
A shortage of rainfall
12.
f l i a e
The main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants
13.
e g e t i o n
All the plant life in a particular region or period
14.
x g e n
Gas in the air that we need to breathe
15.
a m o s h e r
Layer of air around the Earth
16.
a i d r n
17.
l l u t i n
Undesirable state of the natural environment being contaminated with harmful substances as
18.
a b o n d i x i e
A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic
19.
e l i o
A warm ocean current that flows along the equator from the date line and south off the coast
20.
e v a p a t
To cause to change into a vapor
21.
o z o
A colorless gas soluble in alkalis and cold water
22.
m e t o r o y
The earth science dealing with phenomena of the atmosphere
23.
r a c e a
24.
w t e v a o r