Midterm Review Crossword
Across
- 3. Causes high waves on an advancing hurricane.
- 6. Dark cool region of the sun.
- 9. The greenhouse gas associated with the burning of fossil fuels.
- 10. The primary source of CFCs that initiated the ozone depletion in the 80s
- 11. The greenhouse gas that varies most by location.
- 13. Drives weather patterns and travels in waves.
- 16. Pushes warm air to the surface at night to prevent frost.
- 17. Type of radiation that earth emits.
- 20. The day the sun is directly overhead of 23.5* latitude.
- 21. Layer of the atmosphere containing the ozone layer.
Down
- 1. Before a tropical storm is a tropical _____
- 2. The layer of the atmosphere we live in.
- 4. Instrument that takes vertical measurements of the atmosphere (weather balloon)
- 5. Season where the sun never sets on a pole.
- 7. Decreases as you go up in the atmosphere.
- 8. Single cell thunderstorm, commonly found in groups.
- 9. Created by warm air rising and cold air sinking to drive weather changes and storms.
- 12. The amount of light reflected from an object.
- 14. The most abundant gas in today's atmosphere.
- 15. smallest wavelength.
- 18. Planet with a runaway greenhouse effect.
- 19. Most dangerous stage of a tornado.