Tropical Cyclones
Across
- 2. When warm moist air is drawn to the centre of the storm
- 5. another word for Low Pressure
- 7. air currents closer to Earth's surface that blow from east to west near the equator
- 8. the effect of the spinning Earth on descending air, affecting the direction it moves towards the equator, and also the direction of TC spin
- 12. Location of our main case study
- 14. The name of our main case study cyclone
- 15. Waste left behind after forestry practices which is often washed into rivers
- 18. The boundary between earths climate layer and the stratosphere
- 19. air exiting the storm system
- 20. One half of the globe
- 22. A tropical cyclone, but spins the other way in the Northern hemisphere
- 24. Where the stongest winds are found in a TC
- 27. The area where cyclones form near the equator. ITCZ.
Down
- 1. What can go up to 250km/h in a cyclone?
- 3. What becomes much bigger during a TC?
- 4. the increase of salt concentration in soil
- 6. curved band clouds that spiral out from the eye wall
- 8. Direction of TC spinning
- 9. Month that both Gita and Gabrielle occurred
- 10. when water vapour turns into liquid
- 11. One main component needed to form a tropical cyclone
- 13. What are fast moving paths of air high in the atmosphere
- 15. surge raising of sea level due to low pressure system
- 16. pressure When air risies form the earths surface leaving an area where the atmosphere is inflicting less force
- 17. temperature What needs to be at 26.5 for a cyclone to form
- 21. The center of the cyclone, where the weather is calm.
- 23. a cloud and precipitation structure associated with an area of rainfall which is significantly elongated
- 25. A TC is s type of _______
- 26. pressure when the air rises, and leaves behind a vacuum.