Weather and Climate

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Across
  1. 5. similar air pressure system distributed across a latitude
  2. 7. produced by wind, temp and density differences caused by uneven heating by solar radiation thus distributing energy
  3. 9. forms over land when a cool dry high pressure air mass collides with a warm, moist low pressure air mass
  4. 11. ocean current that brings warm water from the equator up along the east coast and over to europe
  5. 14. the force exerted on the surface of Earth by the air above
  6. 17. fast, narrow air current that blows from west to east in the upper atmosphere causing weather to generally move in a west-east direction across the US
  7. 18. Has a trunk
  8. 20. created by the uneven heating by the solar radiation causing convection currents in the air (westerlies, easterlies, trade winds)
  9. 21. day to day conditions in the atmosphere, including humidity, cloud cover, temp, wind and precipitation
  10. 24. ocean current that brings cold, nutrient rich water down from Alaska along the west coast
Down
  1. 1. layer of Earth's atmosphere that we live in and where weather occurs. Wind speed increases but temp and air pressure decrease as you move higher in this layer
  2. 2. boundary where two different air masses meet, causing weather
  3. 3. the apparent curving of a moving object's path from a straight line due to earth's rotation
  4. 4. continuous movement of water between the ocean, atmosphere, and land where surface water evaporates into the atmosphere allowing clouds to form by condensation, and then fall back to the earth as precipitation
  5. 6. less dense air rises, causing wet and cloudy weather
  6. 8. digital tool used to track weather systems such as wind speed, direction, and size of storm.
  7. 10. mature tropical cyclone that forms in areas of low pressure over warm tropical oceans where the storm is fueled by evaporation. AKA a typhoon.
  8. 12. abnormal rise in sea levels caused by a hurricane and can cause dangerous flooding
  9. 13. ocean water with cooler surface temp shifts east causing a drier winter
  10. 15. dense air sinks, causing dry and clear weather
  11. 16. the circular motion of liquids or glasses caused by density differences that result from temp.l Warm, less dense matter rises and cools, more dense matter sinks.
  12. 19. a large body of air that has similar temp and water vapor throughout
  13. 22. ocean water with warm surface temp shifts east, causing a wetter winter
  14. 23. brings thunderstorms and leaves cold and cloudy weather behind