Types of Weather
Across
- 1. water vapor in the atmosphere
- 4. when water vapor forms into ice without passing through the liquid state
- 5. rain drops freeze as they hit the earth and form an icy glaze
- 7. water returns to the atmosphere
- 8. vibrations in the air produces by the rapid change of air temperature after a bolt of lightning occurs
- 11. when cooler dense air from the valley moves up the mountain to replace the warmer, rising air
- 13. rain drops freeze on their way to the earth and land as icy pellets
- 15. a storm with spiraling winds that forms over the Atlantic ocean or the Eastern Pacific ocean
- 17. water falls to the earth
- 18. when water droplets in the clouds join together to form larger drops
- 19. when ice crystals in the clouds join together and fall to the earth
Down
- 1. a period of time with higher-than-average temperatures
- 2. a funnel-shaped windstorm on land
- 3. local wind where sea meets the land
- 6. when cooler, denser air flows down a mountain to replace the warmer, less dense valley air
- 9. local wind where land meets the sea
- 10. appears when water vapor condenses on the surface of objects
- 12. a type of static electricity that moves between clouds or between clouds and the earth
- 14. frozen precipitation that usually falls during warm weather
- 16. a snowstorm with strong, freezing winds and blowing snow