Water Cycle
Across
- 3. the amount of water vapor in the air, expressed as a percentage of the maximum amount that the air could hold at the given temperature; the ratio of the actual water vapor pressure to the saturation vapor pressure.
- 11. matter or the quantity of matter evaporated or passed off in vapor.
- 13. a front between warm and cold air masses that is moving very slowly or not at all.
- 14. The way EarthÅ› rotation makes winds cure is called the_________________.
- 15. a body of air covering a relatively wide area, exhibiting approximately uniform properties through any horizontal section.
- 16. a transition zone between a mass of warm air and the colder air it is replacing.
- 17. the height of anything above a given planetary reference plane, especially above sea level on earth.
- 18. something that drains or flows off, as rain that flows off from the land in streams.
Down
- 1. region where the atmospheric pressure at the surface of the planet is greater than its surrounding environment
- 2. falling products of condensation in the atmosphere, as rain, snow, or hail.
- 4. the atmospheric conditions and weather of an area.PrevilingWinds a wind from the direction that is predominant at a particular place or season.JetStream strong, generally westerly winds concentrated in a relatively narrow and shallow stream in the upper troposphere of the earth.
- 5. condition; moistness; dampness.
- 6. the result of being made more compact or dense
- 7. region where the atmospheric pressure at the surface of the planet is less than its surrounding environment
- 8. the temperature to which air must be cooled, at a given pressure and water-vapor content, for it to reach saturation; the temperature at which dew begins to form.
- 9. the circulation of the earth's water that evaporates from the sea into the atmosphere returning to the sea by rivers or returning to the atmosphere by
- 10. air in natural motion, as that moving horizontally at any velocity along the earth's surface:
- 12. the gaseous envelope surrounding the earth; the air: