Weather and Climate
Across
- 4. caused by a force that deflects the air to the right in the Northern hemisphere
- 6. a wind gust caused when a downdraft hits a surface
- 7. a change in atmospheric temperature
- 9. fast and powerful wind systems that control weather processes
- 10. phenomena caused by the trade winds and ocean surface temperatures
- 11. area where air masses interact
- 13. an increase in the average global temperature
- 15. blows from a lake or ocean onto the land
- 18. special protective layer found within the stratosphere
Down
- 1. layer extending 30 km above Earth's surface
- 2. atmospheric layer above the troposhere
- 3. the reemission of infrared radiation back to the Earth's surface
- 5. this type of cloud is associated with precipitation
- 8. any form of water that falls from the atmosphere to the Earth
- 12. made of all the water on the Earth
- 14. energy released or absorbed during a phase change of water
- 16. made of all the living things on the Earth
- 17. carbon dioxide