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GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE VOCABULARY
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| a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment. |
ECOSYSTEM |
| a natural fuel such as coal or gas, formed in the geological past from the remains of living organisms. |
HABITAT |
| a colorless, odorless gas produced by burning carbon and organic compounds and by respiration. It is naturally present in air (about 0.03 percent) and is absorbed by plants in photosynthesis. |
ATMOSPHERE |
| the trapping of the sun's warmth in a planet's lower atmosphere due to the greater transparency of the atmosphere to visible radiation from the sun than to infrared radiation emitted from the planet's surface. |
CARBON DIOXIDE |
| a system, or a group of interconnected elements, formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their environment. |
GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE |
| the natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism. |
CLIMATE |
| the envelope of gases surrounding the earth or another planet. |
FOSSIL FUELS |
