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IB Definitions - S3 Patterns in environmental quality and sustainability
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- 1Climate changeLong-term sustained change in the
average global climate - 2Natural greenhouse effectThe property of the Earth's atmosphere by which long wavelength heat rays from the Earth's surface are trapped or reflected back by the atmosphere
- 3Enhanced greenhouse effectResults from human activities that increase the concentration of naturally occurring greenhouse gases and leads to global warming and climate change
- 4Global warmingThe increase in the average temperature of the Earth's near-surface air in the 20th and early 21st centuries and its projected continuation
- 5Tipping pointThe point at which the damage done to global systems by climate change becomes irreversible
- 6InsolationThe heat energy from the sun consisting of the visible spectrum together with ultraviolet and infrared rays
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