Science crossword puzzle
Across
- 1. the outermost region of a planets atmosphere.
- 5. to draw something closely together.
- 6. pressure, the forced exerted on a surface by the air above it as gravity pulls it to earth.
- 8. its made of the layers of glass surrounding a planet or other celestial body.
- 12. Pole, the northernmost point on earth.
- 13. latitudes, a belt of calm air and sea occurring in both the southern and northern hemisphere between the trade winds and the westerlies.
- 15. hemisphere, the half of the earth between the North Pole and the equator.
- 17. opposite to the way in which the hands of a clock move around.
- 19. period of the year that is distinguished by climate conditions.
- 20. Degree if consistency measured by the quantity of mass per unit volume.
- 22. cells, a large-scale atmospheric convection cell in which air rises at the equator and sinks at medium latitudes, typically about 30 degrees north or south.
- 23. Hemisphere, the half of the earth south of the equator.
- 24. the degree of hotness or coldness of an object.
Down
- 2. an imaginary line of earth.
- 3. effect, circling air is deflected towards the right in the northern hemisphere and toward the left in the Southern Hemisphere.
- 4. Pole, lies on the opposite side of earth.
- 7. cells, model of the mid-latitude segment of earths wind circulation.
- 9. the act of increasing in size or quantity.
- 10. the region of the atmosphere above the mesosphere and below the height at which the atmosphere ceases to have to properties of a continuous medium.
- 11. cells, an asymmetry in the molecular composition or structure between two sides.
- 14. to move or shift so as lean or incline.
- 16. regions of light ocean currents and winds within the inter tropical convergence zone.
- 18. proceeds in the same way as a clockâs hands.
- 21. winds, wind that flows towards the equator.