Climate Change Vocabulary

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Flashcards covering key terms, evidence, and specific metrics related to climate change and global warming based on the lecture notes.

Last updated 5:32 PM on 10/3/26
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Global warming

The Earth getting warmer, causing heat that is changing our weather.

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Climate change

A broader environmental shift characterized by rising sea levels, thinning global sea ice cover, and disappearing mountain glaciers.

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Drilling ice cores (Antartica)

A method used to gather evidence for climate change across time periods and epochs, showing how the Earth gets warmer gradually over years.

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Sea levels

Ocean height measurements that have risen between 10 and 20 cm in the past 100 years due to melting ice and warmer water.

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Mountain glaciers

Glacial ice formations affected by climate change, some of which may disappear by 2035.

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Global sea ice cover

The expanse of sea ice that has thinned by 73 percent since 1975.