Chapter 9 Environment: the Science behind the stories
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Preeyam Roy Chapter 18 Vocabulary 3/25/12 Period 2 Global climate change Definition: changes in Earth?s climate regarding aspects such as temperature, precipitation, storm frequency and intensity Sentence: humans are accelerating global climate change Global warming Definition: the increase of Earth?s average temperature; only one aspect of global climate change Sentence: global warming isn?t the same as global climate change Greenhouse gases Definition: gases that absorb infrared radiation from Earth?s surface