Weather & Climate Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. A swirling center of low air pressure
  2. 6. Air mass that forms over the ocean
  3. 10. A huge body of air in the lower atmosphere that has similar temperature, humidity, and air pressure at any given height
  4. 12. The process by which water vapor becomes liquid water
  5. 15. Bands of high-speed winds about 10km above Earth's surface
  6. 16. High-pressure swirling centers of dry air
  7. 17. The measure of the amount of water vapor in the air
  8. 18. Clouds that form in flat layers
Down
  1. 1. Air mass that forms over land
  2. 3. Wispy, feathery clouds
  3. 4. The average, year-after-year conditions of temperature, precipitation, wind, and clouds in an area
  4. 5. Clouds that look like heaps of cotton
  5. 7. The process by which molecules of liquid water escape into the air after becoming water vapor
  6. 8. The temperature at which condensation begins
  7. 9. The movement of water through Earth's system
  8. 11. Cold air mass
  9. 13. The boundary where air masses meet
  10. 14. Warm air mass