Climate Change - Key Words

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• 2. Actions taken to reduce the long-term risk from natural hazards (e.g earthquake-proof buildings or international agreements to reduce greenhouse gas emissions). (8)
• 3. Actions taken to adjust to natural events (such as climate change) to reduce long term damage, limit the impacts, take advantage of the opportunities, or cope with the consequences. (10)
• 4. The period of geological time from about 2.6 million years ago to the present. Characterized by the development of humans and includes the. Pleistocene and Holocene Epochs. (10, 6)
• 5. Changes in the pathway of the earth around the sun. (7, 7)
• 8. The atmosphere allows most of the suns short wave radiation to pass through it. However when the earth gives off this heat in the form of long wave radiation, CO2 and methane are able to absorb it. (10, 6)