Climate and Weather Vocab

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What is the practice of cultivating soil, producing crops, and raising livestock called?

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Agriculture

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Which gas is known as a greenhouse gas that affects the temperature of the planet?

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Carbon Dioxide

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What term describes any long-term significant change in the average weather of a region?

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Climate Change

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What is something produced by a cause or following from a set of conditions called?

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Consequence

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What is the careful preservation and protection of something known as?

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Conservation

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What is the term for the clearing or cutting down of forests?

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Deforestation

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What is the action or process of being broken down or destroyed called?

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Erosion

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What is the process of a plant or animal disappearing from the planet called?

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Extinction

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What is the source of carbon in fossil fuels?

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Remains of living things from previous geologic eras

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What does the term "global climate" refer to?

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The climate of the entire planet