Weather and climate
Across
- 1. Is the height of an object from sea level.
- 3. the envelope of gases surrounding the earth or another planet.
- 4. measures humidity
- 6. is the natural movement of air.
- 7. measures the amount of energy within moving particles which we interpret as how hot or cold something is.
- 9. looks at long-term weather patterns.
- 10. they study the weather and try to predict what it will be like.
- 12. a type of climate
- 13. an imaginary line drawn around the earth equally distant from both poles, dividing the earth into northern and southern hemispheres and constituting the parallel of latitude 0°.
- 14. Distance from the equator measured in degrees north or south.
- 15. a weather condition
Down
- 2. an instrument for measuring and indicating temperature.
- 4. is the amount of moisture in the atmosphere at a given time.
- 5. is liquid or solid water that falls to Earth’s surface from the atmosphere.
- 6. is what the atmosphere is like at a given time and place
- 8. measures air pressure
- 11. measures the speed of wind.