Introduction to Meteorology

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Across
  1. 3. what takes place because cold air is more dense than warm air?
  2. 4. where do satellites orbit?
  3. 8. any form of water that falls to the Earth is
  4. 11. what type of radiation does the ozone layer protect living things from?
  5. 13. the ratio of the amount of water the air holds compared to what it can hold at that temperature is ________ humidity
  6. 14. mass divided by volume
  7. 17. what is the layer of gases that surrounds the Earth?
  8. 20. layer that protects Earth from meteoroids
  9. 21. which layer contains most of the mass of the atmosphere?
  10. 23. what type of air pressure produces warm, cloudy weather?
Down
  1. 1. what part of the atmosphere glows when energy from the sun strikes the gas molecules in it?
  2. 2. form of three bonded oxygen atoms
  3. 5. what type of radiation heats the Earth's atmosphere
  4. 6. where do the jet streams travel?
  5. 7. radio waves are reflected back to Earth by particles in the
  6. 9. force per unit area
  7. 10. atmospheric layers are classified according to the change in
  8. 12. air has pressure because it has
  9. 15. weather occurs in the
  10. 16. study of the atmosphere
  11. 18. what effect is the process by which gases hold heat in the atmosphere?
  12. 19. heat transfer between two substances that are in contact
  13. 22. what type of air pressure produces cool, clear weather?