Weather
Across
- 2. Cloud type that appears as puffy masses & often looks like cotton balls
- 4. clouds that produce precipitation
- 8. Temperature increases with altitude
- 11. A form of oxygen in the upper atmosphere it absorbs UV rays thereby preventing them from reaching the surface of the earth
- 14. The rotation of the Earth causes winds to deflect to the right in the northern hemisphere & to the left in the southern hemisphere.
- 15. Rainfall made by atmospheric pollution
Down
- 1. A storm with thunder and lightning
- 3. The movement caused within a fluid by warmer less dense material to rinse
- 5. Rays Invisible rays that come from the sun and can burn skin and cause skin cancer
- 6. The lowest layer of the atmosphere
- 7. A cloud type that appears feathery
- 9. A violent, tropical storm having high wind speeds
- 10. A radar tracking system using the doppler effect to determine the location of storm clouds and precipitation
- 12. A localized, violently destructive windstorm occurring over land & characterized by a long, funnel-shaped cloud
- 13. A device that measures wind direction.