Climate and Weather Vocab

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

• Conservation

• Deforestation

• Agriculture

• Erosion

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

• Oxygen

• Carbon Dioxide

• Nitrogen

• Helium

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

• Erosion

• Extinction

• Climate Change

• Conservation

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

• Erosion

• Consequence

• Agriculture

• Extinction

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

• Conservation

• Deforestation

• Erosion

• Extinction

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

• Agriculture

• Deforestation

• Conservation

• Erosion

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

• Extinction

• Erosion

• Conservation

• Agriculture

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

• Conservation

• Erosion

• Extinction

• Deforestation

What is the source of carbon in fossil fuels?

• Remains of living things from previous geologic eras

• Directly from the atmosphere

• From volcanic eruptions

• From ocean water

What does the term "global climate" refer to?

• The climate of a specific region

• The climate of the entire planet

• The climate of the ocean

• The climate of the atmosphere only