atmosphere vocabulary
Across
- 3. movement back and forth at a regular speed
- 4. large rotating storm with high speed winds that form over warm waters in tropical areas
- 6. nino a weather pattern
- 7. fuel a natural duel such as coal or gas formed from the remains of living organisms
- 9. lowest region of the atmosphere
- 12. a quantity representing the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere or in a gas
- 13. a destructive vortex of violently rotating winds waving the appearance of a funnel shaped cloud
- 16. state of an atmosphere at a place and time
- 18. gases surrounding a planet or other celestial body
- 21. gases that has harmful affects within our environment
- 23. middle region of the atmosphere
- 25. rising of sea water or other liquid
Down
- 1. last region of the atmosphere
- 2. rays from sun
- 5. weather conditions prevailing in an area over a long period of time
- 6. the production and discharge of gas or radiation
- 8. second region of the atmosphere
- 10. a zone that keep uv rays out
- 11. emission of energy as electromagnetic
- 14. streams flow of exhaust gases from a jet engines
- 15. effect trapping of the suns warmth in a plant
- 17. inversions reversal of the normal behavior of temp in the troposphere
- 19. height of an object or point in relation to sea level or ground level
- 20. several organic compounds composed of carbon fluorine and chlorine
- 22. nina weather pattern that begins in the pacific
- 24. quality condition of air within the surroundings
- 26. warming gradual increase in the overall temp of the earth atmosphere