Intermediate Climate Crossword

The answers to all of these clues can be found on the following pages (to allow you to look at your puzzle and these pages at the same time, a separate window will be launched for each page you choose): Happenings During the Mesozoic Era , Happenings During the Paleozoic Era , The Carbon Cycle , Modeling the Future of Climate Change , Effects of Climate Change Today , Space Missions to study Earth , What is Climate? , Climate Changes with Latitude , What Controls Climate? , Climates of the Past

Last modified June 26, 2006 by Jennifer Bergman.

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