Sources and Sinks

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Across
  1. 1. Where the air is sinking, or subsiding, air pressure is
  2. 5. Convection cells circulate air, moisture, and ______ around the globe
  3. 6. more vigorous near the equator than at higher latitudes because of the more intense heating from the sun
  4. 8. Solar energy absorbed by the ground eventually re-radiates as long-wave infrared energy or?
  5. 11. air pressure at the surface is
  6. 12. We call the mid-latitude and polar cells Ferrell cells and _______
  7. 13. what is the result of convection
  8. 14. What does water do when hit with solar energy?
Down
  1. 1. the sun shines low on the _______ much of the year and little heat is available for warming the ground
  2. 2. we call the equatorial convection cells
  3. 3. heating Near the equator, the sun shines straight overhead, and ________ is intense.
  4. 4. Convection cells expand and ______ seasonally
  5. 7. passes all the way through our atmosphere is absorbed either by the ground surface or by water
  6. 9. what warm air cools it does what?
  7. 10. what develops where cells meet
  8. 15. warmed air does what?