vocab preview weather unit 5
Across
- 1. wind wind that travels short distances
- 5. a rapidly whirling funnel shape cloud that reaches down from a storm to touch earths surface
- 7. the lowest layer of earths atmosphere
- 11. breeze the flow of cooler air from an ocean or lake towards land
- 12. the condition of earths atmosphere at a particular time or place
- 13. a tropical storm that has wind of about 119 kilometers per hour or higher
- 14. house effect the process by which heat is trapped in the atmosphere by water vapor, carbon dioxide methane and other gases that form a "blanket" around earth; the trapping of heat by a planets atmosphere
Down
- 2. the development of gases that surrounds earth
- 3. breeze the flow of air from land to a body of water
- 4. air mass a dry air mass that forms over land
- 6. wind wind that blows steadily from a specific directions long distances
- 8. the direct transfer of energy through space of electromagnetic waves
- 9. air mass a humid air mass that forms over oceans
- 10. the boundary where unlike air masses meet but don't mix
- 12. the horizontal movement of air from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure