When waves reach shallow water, they are often bent and tend to become parallel to the shore. This process is termed ________.

Types of climate-feedback mechanisms consist of ________.

Climate is a description of the ________.

What are the solid and liquid particles suspended within the atmosphere called?

Variations in the angle that Earth’s axis makes with the plane of it’s orbit is called ________.

Which of the following has the greatest effect on the tides?

Seafloor sediments are very important in discovering paleoclimate because they ________.

The________ isotopes in the hard skeletons of corals are an important paleothermometer.

Global warming since the mid-1970s has been about ________.

Oxygen isotope analysis is the measurement of two isotopes of oxygen (18O and 16O). The lighter isotope, 16O, ________.