Title: Weather
19 Square PaleoclimateVocabulary Builder
Title Paleoclimate
Paleoclimate
Observation
Pollen
Process where sediments are transported and
redeposited by wind or water
Measure of average kinetic energy in a material
Temperature
Ice Age
Climate
Deposition
Long term weather patterns over a geographic
region
Any form of water that falls from a cloud
Weather
State of the atmosphere at any given time
Climate
Precipitation
The act of noting and recording a phenomena
Study of the Earths ancient climate history
Temperature
Paleoclimate
Proxy Data
Observation
Fine to coarse powder containing the male cells
of a flowering plant
Layering of sediments to create strata
Global Warming
Increase in average temperature of the Earth
Pollen
Deposition
Period of time when much of the Earth was covered
by glaciers
Imprints of past climate recorded in the
environment
Proxy Data
Deposition
Ice Age
Precipitation
State of the atmosphere at any given time
Glaciers
Study of the changes in Earths climate over time
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