Physical Science Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 7. Circulating air patterns
  2. 9. A highly reactive gas whose molecules are composed of three oxygen atoms
  3. 11. Neither hemisphere is tilted toward the sun, and the lengths of daylight and of darkness are approximately equal
  4. 13. A wind that blows over a short distance
  5. 16. A belt of high-speed wind in the upper troposphere
  6. 18. Are caused by difference in air pressure
  7. 19. What scientist use to mark out three different types regions
  8. 22. 365 1/4 days
  9. 24. What causes day and night
  10. 25. Where cooler air over land moves toward water
  11. 26. Has an altitude of about 12 km to 50 km
  12. 27. Without ______ Earth's surface would be a lot cooler than it is
Down
  1. 1. About 30% of the incoming _________ is reflected back into space by clouds, dust in the air, gases, and Earth's surface
  2. 2. The cooler air over the water flows toward the land
  3. 3. Produced during photosynthesis and released into the atmosphere
  4. 4. Occurs on the two days each year when the sun is directly overhead at the latitude 23.5 north or 23.5 south
  5. 5. Winds that blow over a long distance from a specific direction
  6. 6. The movement of one body in space around another
  7. 8. Lowest layer of the Earth's atmosphere
  8. 10. Caused by the tilt of Earth's axis as it moves around the sun
  9. 12. The process of capturing the sun's energy to make food
  10. 14. The condition of the atmosphere in a particular place at a particular time
  11. 15. Is the layer of gases that surrounds Earth
  12. 17. Air pressure changes with _____ .
  13. 20. Is a essential gas for for plants and some other organisms to carry out photosynthesis
  14. 21. The tool scientist use to measure air pressure with
  15. 23. The force exerted by the weight of a column of air on a surface