Vocabulary Extension ch 13

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Across
  1. 2. Produced by advancing fronts
  2. 7. Extended period of above-average temperatures
  3. 8. Stored energy in water vapor that is not released to warm the atmosphere until condensation occurs
  4. 10. Violent downdrafts concentrated in a local area
  5. 11. Large body of air that takes on the characteristics of the area over which it forms
  6. 12. Estimates and measures how cold the air feels on the human body
  7. 13. Extended period of well-below-average rainfall
  8. 14. When air rises due to unequal heating of the Earth’s surface within an air mass
  9. 16. Extended period of below-average temperatures
Down
  1. 1. Assigns a tornado a 'rating' based on estimated wind speeds and related damage
  2. 3. Channel of partially charged air
  3. 4. Local air mass thunderstorms that occur because land and water storage and release thermal energy differently
  4. 5. Occurs when air rises from orographic lifting which involves air moving up a mountain
  5. 6. Self-sustaining, extremely powerful storms
  6. 9. Branched channel of positively charged particles
  7. 15. Violent whirling column of air in contact with the ground