Atmosphere/Weather

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Across
  1. 1. rain or other that's usually acidic
  2. 5. is the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that cause adverse change.
  3. 7. helps power up a windmill
  4. 8. is a volume of air defined by its temperature and water vapor content.
  5. 9. one of the lowest clouds and are puffy
  6. 11. it means middle
  7. 12. part of the sun's energy is absorbed by the earth's what?
  8. 13. occurs at night by the ocean
  9. 14. the outermost region of a planet's atmosphere
  10. 15. forms when cold air mass pushes under a warm air mass, forcing the warm air to rise
  11. 17. the layer of the earth's atmosphere above the troposphere
  12. 20. they are sea breeze and land breeze...
  13. 21. forms when a moist, warm air mass slides up and over a cold air mass
  14. 24. forms when warm and cold air meet and neither air mass has force to move the other
  15. 27. a liquid becoming a gas
  16. 28. it means rain (cloud)
  17. 29. cloud forming a continuous horizontal gray sheet, often with rain or snow.
  18. 31. right above the mesosphere
  19. 32. the polar easterlies, the westerlies, and the trade winds
  20. 33. the region of the earth's atmosphere above the stratosphere and below the thermosphere
  21. 34. the state or quality of being humid.
Down
  1. 2. is considered satisfactory, and air pollution poses little or no risk.
  2. 3. wispy, or looks feathery (cloud)
  3. 4. brief bursts of cold air have been blown into the region by the what?
  4. 6. this pressure generally is associated with cloudy, rainy, and snowy weather
  5. 7. a rainy day is a type of what..
  6. 10. Objects in the Northern Hemisphere are deflected to the right, while objects in the Southern Hemisphere are deflected to the left.
  7. 16. the pressure generally is associated with nice weather
  8. 18. plants lose more than 90 percent of their water through what process?
  9. 19. the final transfer of energy to the surface is by what?
  10. 22. the layer of the earth's atmosphere that contains a high concentration of ions and free electrons and is able to reflect radio waves.
  11. 23. rain, snow, sleet, or hail that falls to the ground is the process of what?
  12. 25. the lowest region of the atmosphere
  13. 26. occurs in the day time by the ocean
  14. 30. the job of supervising or taking care of something