Climate, Weather, Fronts & Air Masses

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Across
  1. 4. cold, dry, stable
  2. 6. Average weather over long periods of time in a particular area
  3. 7. no movement of the transition zone between two air masses
  4. 8. is warm air moving up and over cool air
  5. 9. a major source of energy for weather
  6. 12. changes day to day, average heat transfer from the Sun
  7. 15. hot, dry, stable air high up and unstable surface air
  8. 16. cold front overtakes the warm front in a low pressure system
Down
  1. 1. warm, moist, usually unstable
  2. 2. when convection currents cause wind and air moves from hot to cold, less dense to more dense, high pressure to low pressure
  3. 3. helps to redistribute energy away from hotter to cooler areas of Earth
  4. 5. extremely large body of air
  5. 10. cool, moist, unstable
  6. 11. tropical
  7. 13. forms over ocean
  8. 14. polar/arctic
  9. 15. when cold air displaces warm air
  10. 17. forms over land