Ch 12 unified science crossword.
Across
- 4. narrow wind band that occurs above large temperature contrast and can flow as fast as 185 km.
- 5. record of weather data for a specific place at a specific time.
- 6. line on a weather map connecting areas of equal pressure.
- 8. weather instrument used to measure humidity.
- 11. changeinthewavefrequencythatoccursduetorelativemotionofthewaveasitmovestowardsorawayfromanobserver
- 14. effect of a rotating body that influences the motion of any objector fluid.
Down
- 1. instrument used to measure temperature using either the Fahrenheit or Celsius.
- 2. large volume of air that has the characteristics of the area over which it forms
- 3. instrument used to measure air pressure.
- 7. weather instrument used to measure wind speed.
- 9. short term variations in atmosphere phenomena that interact and affect the environment and life on earth
- 10. the long term average of variation in weather for particular area
- 12. boundary between two air masses of differing densities; can be cold warm, stationary, or occluded and can stretch over large areas of earths surface.
- 13. winds two global wind systems that flow between 30 north and south latitudes where air sinks, warms, and returns to the equator in a westerly direction
- 15. line on a weather map connecting areas of equal temperatures.