Weather and Climate

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Across
  1. 2. humid air mass that forms over water
  2. 4. a band of fast-moving air high in the troposphere blowing across the US from west to east bringing in cooler air from Canada
  3. 6. type of heat transfer that allows energy from the Sun to reach Earth
  4. 8. warm, equatorial current that flows north past Florida's east coast depositing heat
  5. 9. the vertical uplift of air caused when two sea breezes collide
  6. 13. occurs when positive and negative charges between the atmosphere and objects on the ground connect resulting in an electric discharge
  7. 15. the atmospheric conditions of an area that changes from day to day
  8. 16. _______ effect is the warming of a planet's surface by the presence of gases that are able to trap heat
  9. 19. ______ effect is the curving of wind and ocean currents due to Earth's rotation
  10. 20. type of heat transfer that occurs as warm air rises and cooler air sinks
  11. 21. measures wind speed
  12. 22. the side of the mountain that is cooler, rainy, and breezy
  13. 23. a very large slow moving rotating storm that forms over large volumes of very warm water
Down
  1. 1. brings up cooler, nutrient rich bottom water to the surface
  2. 3. a small scale, short lived violently rotating column of air that forms from supercell thunderstorms and in tropical storms and hurricanes
  3. 5. circular surface current found in all of the major ocean basins
  4. 7. a global wind located between 0° and 30° latitude; pushes Atlantic hurricanes towards the US
  5. 10. the overall weather conditions of a region based on decades of atmospheric data
  6. 11. this always moves from high to low pressure due to Earth's uneven heating
  7. 12. this occurs due to low pressure in the atmosphere; the lower the pressure, the more intense these become
  8. 14. occurs when lightning superheats a very small column of air causing it to expand rapidly
  9. 17. along with temperature, this factor drives the movement of deep ocean currents
  10. 18. brings oxygen down to marine life in deeper ocean water
  11. 19. dry air mass that forms over land
  12. 20. type of heat transfer responsible for Earth's atmosphere being heated