Climate

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Weather

The short term conditions of the state of the atmosphere

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Climate

The normal pattern of weather over a long period of time

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Anthropogenic greenhouse gasses

Carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide

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Albedo

A measure of how much of the suns radiation is reflected by the surface

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Climograph

Shows the climate data for a specific location showing the temperature and precipitation over a year

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Natural sources of carbon dioxide

Volcanic eruption, burning of organic matter and cellular resperation

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Why are forest considered carbon sinks

When the forest are removed the trees that normally absorb CO2 during the photosynthesis are removed this causes less trees to take in the CO2 leading to the increase of it in the atmosphere

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