The Best Crossword Puzzle Maker Online
Powered by BrightSprout
Save Status:
or to save your progress. The page will not refresh.
Controls:
SPACEBAR SWITCHES TYPING DIRECTION
Answer Key:
Edit a Copy:
Make Your Own:
Crossword Word Search Worksheet
Rate This Puzzle:
Log in or sign up to rate this puzzle.

The Greenhouse Effect

Complete the word search below, using the terms from the Greenhouse gas workbook! 
Across
Electromagnetic radiation not visible to the eye (“below red” in the visible portion of the spectrum), measured as heat or thermal energy.
Any gas, such as water vapor, carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, or methane, that absorbs infrared radiation in the atmosphere and contributes to the greenhouse effect
A long-term signi cant change in the Earth’s climatic patterns.
Any process, activity, or reservoir that releases a greenhouse gas (GHG) into the atmosphere.
The process of scattering or bouncing back something, such as a light ray or radiation.
Down
The conditions in the atmosphere (temperature, moisture, wind, and other atmospheric conditions) at a given time and location.
The prevailing, average weather conditions in uenced by temperature, precipitation, humidity, and other meteorological factors in a given region over a long period of time.
The combined effect of certain gases in the atmosphere absorbing infrared and thermal radiation, affecting the overall temperature of Earth.
The gradual increase of average surface temperatures of Earth caused in part by high levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide.
he process of taking in and not re ecting something, such as a light ray or radiation.
Any process, activity, or reservoir that absorbs a greenhouse gas (GHG) from the atmosphere and stores it.