Earth's Atmosphere
Across
- 2. ice crystals that form directly from water vapor
- 3. the visible mass of condensed water vapor floating in the atmosphere
- 5. fair weather clouds, puffy white clouds that look like a pile of cotton
- 9. solid or liquid water that falls to earth's surface
- 11. rain that passes through frozen air causing a rain/ice mix
- 13. the envelope of gases surrounding the earth or another planet
Down
- 1. thin wispy streaks across the sky, highest clouds
- 2. the middle layer of the atmosphere
- 4. low level clouds, usually flat, producing a gray layer of cloud cover
- 5. vertical air movement
- 6. icy pellets, form as water freezes around ice crystals that are moving through rain clouds
- 7. horizontal air movement
- 8. a large gray rain cloud
- 10. the layer of air closest to the surface of the earth
- 12. stratus layer that comes close to earth