Predicting Weather Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. Front type of front shown in purple with alternating circles and triangles on one side of line
  2. 5. Front this type of front moves quickly, overtaking area with warm air, causing quick heavy rain
  3. 10. this process turns water vapor back into liquid to make clouds visible
  4. 11. Balloon an instrument for measuring weather from high in the troposphere, lower stratosphere
  5. 12. Radar an instrument for measuring precipitation location, type, and motion
  6. 15. rain cloud
  7. 17. an instrument for measuring temperature
  8. 18. Front this type of front is when warm air moves into area of cold air; often form stratus clouds
  9. 19. the height of an object or point in relation to sea level or ground level
  10. 20. Pressure System winds rotate clockwise around this type of pressure center; associated with clear nice weather
  11. 21. thin wispy high altitude clouds
  12. 23. System winds rotate counter-clockwise around this type of pressure center; associated with clouds and precipitation
Down
  1. 1. an instrument for measuring humidity
  2. 2. rain, snow, sleet, or hail that falls to the ground
  3. 4. Point the temperature at which condensation begins
  4. 6. the amount of water vapor in the air
  5. 7. Front type of front occurs when warm and cold air mass meet and stay still
  6. 8. Vane an instrument for measuring wind direction
  7. 9. an instrument for measuring the speed of the wind
  8. 13. puffy clouds with flat bottom
  9. 14. an expert in meteorology; a weather forecaster
  10. 16. layered gray blanket clouds; bring steady light rain
  11. 18. Satellite instruments for measuring weather and climate on Earth from space
  12. 22. an instrument for measuring air pressure