Lesson 3: What Influences Weather?
Across
- 4. This jet stream flows nearest to the Equator
- 8. Cities in this area experience more mild summer and winter climates due to their location near the ocean
- 9. In this type of system, air rises and cools producing rainy weather
- 10. This process creates clouds when water vapor cools and changes from a gas to a liquid
- 11. The continuous movement of water between the atmosphere, the land, the oceans, and living things
- 13. This movement of ocean water is caused by winds that change local temperatures and humidity
- 17. When liquid water changes into water vapor
- 18. This type of front forms when a cold air mass pushes up a warm air mass and creates cool weather
Down
- 1. This weather influence is caused by unequal heating of Earth's surface and can occur locally or globally
- 2. In this type of system, air sinks slowly down, spreading out and creating warm weather
- 3. When rain, snow, sleet or hail falls from the clouds onto Earth's surface
- 5. A large volume of air in which temperature and moisture content are the same throughout
- 6. This jet stream flows closer to the poles in the summertime
- 7. Warm water in the ocean fuels this type of natural disaster
- 11. This type of front forms when a warm air mass follows a retreating cold air mass
- 12. The curve of winds due to the Earth's rotation
- 13. This type of front is created when two air masses remain in one place and generally produces clear weather
- 14. These are long-distance winds that travel above global winds for thousands of kilometers
- 15. Cities in this area experience more extreme summer and winter climates because they lie farther away from the ocean
- 16. The boundary of an air mass