Meteorology II Crossword Review

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Across
  1. 3. layered or flat cloud that brings all-day precipitation
  2. 6. thunderstorms form when warm, humid air does this quickly
  3. 9. mass large body of air that has the same temperature and humidity as the area over which it forms
  4. 11. dry air that moves into the U.S. from Canada or Mexico
  5. 12. motion of air around a high pressure system in the northern hemisphere
  6. 14. means humid air that hovered over an ocean for awhile
  7. 15. temperature gets ________ as altitude increases in the troposphere
  8. 17. middle part of the U.S. where most tornadoes occur
  9. 20. clouds form when air cools to this temperature
  10. 21. this frontal boundary results when cold air catches up to the front of a warm air mass and pushes it all off of the ground
  11. 25. this front is made of half circles on a weather map and pushes into cooler air
  12. 26. wind speed (mph) of the weakest possible hurricane
  13. 27. the largest storm on Earth, gains it's strength from warm ocean waters
Down
  1. 1. layered or flat clouds that cover most of the sky
  2. 2. tall, puffy thunderstorm cloud which can drop hail, heavy rain, lightning, and tornadoes
  3. 4. what type of air mass forms over the North Atlantic bringing cold air to Stroudsburg
  4. 5. the most dangerous result of a hurricane, occurs at the coast
  5. 7. the frontal boundary where neither cold nor warm air dominates the other
  6. 8. these high-altitude clouds indicate fair weather today and precipitation soon because they form at the leading edge of storms
  7. 10. a line of equal air pressure on a weather map
  8. 12. the heaviest air, represented as a line with triangles on a weather map
  9. 13. Puffy clouds that indicate fair weather
  10. 16. precipitation and storms occur in this type of system that consists of lighter than average air
  11. 18. another name for a cold air mass
  12. 19. upper tropospheric wind that separates polar and tropical air and pushes storm systems around the planet
  13. 22. this is the location of the strongest winds in a hurricane
  14. 23. a violent, whirling wind that moves in a narrow path and is capable of catastrophic destruction
  15. 24. the boundary line between two different air masses