Climate and Global Warming Vocabulary for Quarter 3 6th grade science
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| Climate | the average weather of an area, determined by temperature and precipitation
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| Microclimate | a small area with a different climate than the surrounding area
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| El Niño | the warming of the western Pacific ocean that causes droughts in Australia and floods in South America
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| Gulf Stream | a warm ocean current that flows from the equator to the North Pole, bringing warm weather to Great Brittan
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| Global Warming | the gradual increase in the temperature of the Earth’s atmosphere
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| Greenhouse Gases | gases in the atmosphere that absorb heat and send it back to Earth’s surface making the world warmer
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| Greenhouse Effect | the trapping of heat inside the earth’s atmosphere
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| Glacier | a large mass of slow moving ice; can be larger than a city and taller than a sky scrapper
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| Carbon Dioxide | one of the main greenhouse gases, it is released from the burning of fossil fuels. Plants also absorb it
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| Methane | one of the main greenhouse gases, it is released from livestock
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| E.P.A | Environmental Protection Agency
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| Compost | A mixture of decomposing organic matter, used to improve the physical properties of the soil
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| Landfill | where garbage is deposited and then buried.
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