Weather Crossword
Across
- 2. Short-term variations in atmosphere phenomena that interact and affect the environment and life on Earth
- 3. Narrow wind band the occurs above large temperature contrasts and can flow as fast as 185km/h
- 6. Effect of a rotating body that influences the motion of any object or fluid; on Earth, air moving north or south from the equator appears to move right or left, respectively; the combination of the Coriolis effect and Earth's heat imbalance creates the trade winds, polar easterlies, and prevailing westerlies
- 7. Two global wind systems that flow between 30 degrees north and south latitudes, where air sinks, warms, and returns to the equator in a westerly direction
- 8. Instrument used to measure air pressure
- 10. Line on a weather map connecting areas of equal temperature
- 11. Weather instrument used to measure wind speed
- 13. The long-term average of variation in weather for a particular area
- 14. Line on a weather map connecting areas of equal pressure
Down
- 1. Weather instrument used to measure humidity
- 4. Record of weather data for a specific place at a specific time, using meteorological symbols
- 5. Change in the wave frequency that occurs due to the relative motion of the wave as it moves toward or away from an observer
- 7. Instrument used to measure temperature using either the Fahrenheit or Celsius scale
- 9. Boundary between two air masses of differing densities; can be cold, warm, stationary, or occluded and can stretch over large areas of Earth's surface
- 12. Large volume of air that has the characteristics of the area over which it forms