Oceans On Climate / Weather
Across
- 2. engine that drives all weather on earth.
- 3. Famous for their powerful, destructive winds.
- 6. The cold counterpart to El Nino
- 8. One result of this may be the melting of glaciers and ice caps, with a subsequent rise in ocean levels.
- 12. All rain comes fro the evaporation of this.
- 13. Forms of water falling from the sky.
- 15. fast flowing, narrow air currents found in the atmospheres of some planets.
- 17. Storms that are most common in August and September.
- 19. The fifth largest satellite in the solar system.
- 20. abnormally warm ocean surface temperatures and changing wind patterns.
Down
- 1. There are 4 of them a year
- 4. Another name for water cycle.
- 5. Tropical cyclones often strike this ocean in May and November.
- 7. Along with the Gulf Coast, the only significant hurricane threat in the United States is along this coast.
- 9. A powerful, warm, and swift Atlantic ocean current that originates at the tip of Florida.
- 10. The weight of the air pressing down on Earth.
- 11. rise and fall of sea levels.
- 14. A continuous, directed movements of ocean water
- 16. Generated by ocean conditions.
- 18. water vapor condenses to form these.