Chapter 12 Vocab
Across
- 4. A large body of air with generally uniform temperature and humidity
- 5. Instrument that measures wind speed
- 6. Circulating air is deflected toward the right in the northern hem and toward the left in the southern hem
- 9. Instrument used to measure humidity in the air
- 11. Increase in frequency of sound light or other waves as the source and observer move toward each other
- 13. A scientific instrument used to measure atmospheric pressure
- 14. A fast narrow current of air flowing from west to east that encircles the globe
- 15. Winds that reliably blow east to west just north and south of the equator
Down
- 1. The long term pattern of weather on a particular area
- 2. Symbolic illustrations showing the weather occurring at a given reporting station
- 3. The state of the air and atmosphere at a particular place and time
- 7. A weather system that is the boundary separating two different types of air
- 8. A line on a map or chat of the earths surface connecting points having the same temperature at a given time or the same mean temperature for a given period
- 10. Atoms of different elements with different atomic numbers but have the same mass number
- 12. Instrument that measures temperature