OAC Ch 1 Vocabulary
Across
- 1. a climate pattern where water near the equator gets hotter than usual and affects the weather around the world; happens in the Pacific Ocean
- 6. the ability to make things move or change
- 9. the imaginary line that divides Earth into the northern and southern hemispheres
- 11. the study of weather patterns over a long period of time
- 12. a measure of how hot or cold something is
- 13. what the sky and air are like outside at any given moment
Down
- 2. the distance of a place north or south of Earth’s equator
- 3. to use any of the five senses to gather information
- 4. general weather patterns over a long period of time
- 5. the outside or top layer of something, such as land or water covering the Earth
- 7. related to the sun
- 8. to move from one object to another or one place to another
- 10. an object, diagram, or computer program that helps us understand something by making it simpler or easier to see