Global warming vocabulary

An increase in the world's temperature

• Fossil fuels

• Global warming

• Atmosphere

• Natural resource

Changes in the earth's weather

• Renewable resource

• Carbon dioxide

• Non-renewable resource

• Climate change

A common substance from the earth that humans use

• Ozone layer

• Carbon footprint

• Natural resource

• Global warming

The whole mass of air that surrounds the Earth

• Atmosphere

• Fossil fuels

• Greenhouse effect

• Climate change

The result of heat getting trapped near the earth's surface

• Atmosphere

• Renewable resource

• Greenhouse effect

• Natural resource

A fuel that is formed in the earth from dead plants and animals

• Global warming

• Carbon footprint

• Ozone layer

• Fossil fuels

A common substance that is made continuously

• Climate change

• Renewable resource

• Carbon dioxide

• Carbon footprint

A common substance that cannot be replaced when it's gone

• Non-renewable resource

• Greenhouse effect

• Renewable resource

• Ozone layer

A gas that is produced when people and animals breathe out or when certain fuels are burned

• Global warming

• Carbon dioxide

• Carbon footprint

• Ozone layer

A layer in the upper atmosphere that prevents most ultra violet (UV) radiation from the sun

• Ozone layer

• Renewable resource

• Fossil fuels

• Atmosphere