Climate and Weather

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Across
  1. 2. The adjustment in natural or human systems in response to actual or expected climatic stimuli or their effects
  2. 4. Any product of the condensation of atmospheric water vapor that falls under gravity
  3. 5. Latin word where climate originated
  4. 6. The study of climate
  5. 10. It is a scientific instrument used in meteorology to measure atmospheric pressure
  6. 12. He is best known for devising a climate classification system in 1948 that is still in use worldwide
  7. 15. The interdisciplinary scientific study of the atmosphere
  8. 16. The amount of water vapor in the air
  9. 18. The direction upwind from the point of reference
  10. 21. A device used for measuring wind speed
Down
  1. 1. The study of changes in climate taken on the scale of the entire history of Earth
  2. 3. what conditions of the atmosphere are over a short period of time
  3. 4. Branch of Climatology that deals with the interpretation of factors responsible for the spatial and temporal variations of exchange of air circulations, heat and humidity
  4. 5. How the atmosphere "behaves" over relatively long periods of time
  5. 7. His most notable contribution to science was the development of the climate classification system
  6. 8. Layer of gases surrounding the planet Earth that is retained by Earth's gravity
  7. 9. Device that measures temperature
  8. 11. Angular distance between horizontal lines parallel to the equator
  9. 13. Measure of hotness or coldness of the atmosphere
  10. 14. Angular distance between vertical lines parallel to the Prime Meridian
  11. 15. A human intervention to reduce the sources or enhance the sinks of greenhouse gases
  12. 17. Seasonal prevailing wind which lasts for several months
  13. 18. Flow of gases on a large scale
  14. 19. It became the specialized agency of the United Nations for meteorology (weather and climate)
  15. 20. The direction downwind from the point of reference