Ms hutti cross word

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  1. 1. Current - a current in a fluid that results from convection.
  2. 4. Jetstreams - relatively narrow bands of strong wind in the upper levels of the atmosphere.
  3. 7. cells - A mid-latitude atmospheric circulation cell for weather named by Ferrel in the 19th century.
  4. 8. Effect - an effect whereby a mass moving in a rotating system experiences a force (the Coriolis force ) acting perpendicular to the direction of motion and to the axis of rotation
  5. 10. Hemisphere - The section of the Earth that is north of the Equator.
  6. 11. - the quality or state of being dense.
  7. 12. - become or make larger or more extensive.
  8. 13. - a state or period of inactivity, stagnation, or depression.
  9. 15. - the envelope of gasses surrounding the earth or another planet.
  10. 16. Latitudes - a belt of calm air and sea occurring in both the northern and southern hemispheres between the trade winds and the westerlies.
  11. 18. - an imaginary line drawn around the earth equally distant from both poles, dividing the earth into northern and Southern Hemispheres.
  12. 20. Cells - a large-scale atmospheric convection cell in which air rises at the equator and sinks at medium latitudes.
  13. 21. - the layer of the earth's atmosphere above the troposphere.
  14. 22. pressure - the force exerted on a surface by the air above it as gravity pulls it to Earth.
Down
  1. 2. Pole - The northernmost point on Earth.
  2. 3. - move or cause to move into a sloping position.
  3. 4. Easterlies - dry, cold prevailing winds that blow around the high-pressure areas of the polar highs at the North and South Poles.
  4. 5. - each of the four divisions of the year (spring, summer, autumn, and winter) marked by particular weather patterns and daylight hours, resulting from the earth's changing position with regard to the sun.
  5. 6. - the lowest region of the atmosphere, extending from the earth's surface to a height of about 3.7–6.2 miles.
  6. 8. - in the opposite direction to the way in which the hands of a clock move around.
  7. 9. Pole - the southernmost point of the earth.
  8. 14. - the degree of hotness or coldness of an object.
  9. 17. - the outermost region of a planet's atmosphere.
  10. 19. - the region of the earth's atmosphere above the stratosphere and below the thermosphere, between about 30 and 50 miles in altitude