Clouds and Weather Instruments
Across
- 2. a stratus cloud that forms close to the ground
- 4. liquid water changed into water vapor
- 6. rain cloud
- 9. "thunderhead" or storm clouds, piled high rain cloud
- 10. a large collection of very tiny droplets of water or ice crystals
- 12. water turns into a gas called this
- 15. measures precipitation
- 16. the weight of the atmosphere
- 17. measures temperature
- 18. when water is released from plant leaves
- 19. low, wide, gray blanket clouds
- 20. water that flows over the land's surface and flows into bodies of water such as rivers, lakes, and streams
Down
- 1. the layer of gasses that surrounds Earth
- 3. rain, snow, sleet, hail
- 5. measures wind speed
- 7. when water vapor changes into a liquid
- 8. shows where the wind comes from
- 9. puffy with white flat bottoms, fair weather
- 10. white and feathery, the highest cloud made up of ice crystals
- 11. the change of water from one state to another as it moves between the Earth's surface and atmosphere
- 13. measures air pressure
- 14. where water is stored