vocab preview weather unit 5

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Across
  1. 1. wind wind that travels short distances
  2. 5. a rapidly whirling funnel shape cloud that reaches down from a storm to touch earths surface
  3. 7. the lowest layer of earths atmosphere
  4. 11. breeze the flow of cooler air from an ocean or lake towards land
  5. 12. the condition of earths atmosphere at a particular time or place
  6. 13. a tropical storm that has wind of about 119 kilometers per hour or higher
  7. 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
  1. 2. the development of gases that surrounds earth
  2. 3. breeze the flow of air from land to a body of water
  3. 4. air mass a dry air mass that forms over land
  4. 6. wind wind that blows steadily from a specific directions long distances
  5. 8. the direct transfer of energy through space of electromagnetic waves
  6. 9. air mass a humid air mass that forms over oceans
  7. 10. the boundary where unlike air masses meet but don't mix
  8. 12. the horizontal movement of air from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure