Climate and the Effects of Global Climate Change

Climate and the Effects of Global Climate Change

This text discusses climate and weather, global climate change, and documented results of climate change: past and present. Advanced Placement® and AP® are trademarks registered and/or owned by the College Board, which is not affiliated with, and does not endorse, this textbook.

Topics

  • abiotic
  • aboveground
  • biomass
  • abyssal zone
  • algal bloom
  • aphotic zone
  • benthic realm
  • biogeography
  • biome
  • biotic
  • canopy
  • channel
  • clathrates
  • climate
  • conspecifics
  • coral
  • reef
  • cryptofauna
  • ecosystem services
  • emergent vegetation
  • endemic
  • estuary
  • fall and spring turnover
  • global climate change
  • greenhouse effect
  • greenhouse gases
  • haze-effect
  • cooling
  • heterospecifics
  • intertidal zone
  • Milankovitch cycles
  • neritic zone
  • net primary productivity
  • ocean upwelling
  • oceanic zone
  • pelagic realm
  • permafrost
  • photic zone
  • planktivore
  • predator
  • Sargassum
  • solar intensity
  • source
  • water
  • thermocline
  • weather