The Catastrophic Events Crossword Puzzle

5. Where warmer, moist air overtakes the trailing edge of a colder air mass.
6. The center of the low pressure system inside of a hurricane
8. When a hurricane comes ashore and brings higher water levels.
9. When an air mass moves across the Earth's surface, it will be deflected and curve due to the rotation of the Earth.
11. Where a cooler, dryer, air mass collides with a warmer, moist, air mass.
12. Conditions in the atmosphere in a local area over a short time period of hours or days.
13. A special, low pressure storm that is a heat engine driven by exceptionally warm tropical waters.
17. When an air mass's temperature does not decrease with altitude.
18. When a warm and cold air mass meets but neither moves out of the other's way.
20. Average weather for a season or a whole year that can be predicted for a region on Earth based upon decades of weather data.

1. The transfer of energy across empty space at the speed of light until it strikes a surface of matter.
2. The heat energy required to change a substance from one state to another.
3. 310 miles to 1000 miles up in our atmosphere. Most satellites orbit at this altitude.
4. The innermost band of clouds around the eye of the hurricane that contains the strongest winds.
7. The movement of air or water caused by a difference in temperature.
10. An instrument that detects and measures pressure changes.
14. When an air mass's temperature decreases rapidly with an increase in altitude
15. The exchange of heat from atom to atom.
16. Lines on a weather map that connect up areas of equal air pressure
19. The part of our atmosphere that we live in and goes from the ground to nine miles (15 km) up.