Weather Crossword Puzzle
Across
- 2. 2 different air masses come together
- 6. Convergence Zone The area where the northeast and the southeast trade winds converge
- 7. Front The changeover region where a cold air mass is replacing a warmer air mass
- 8. Front When a warm air mass gets caught between two cold air masses
- 11. Easterlies Applied to the trade winds when they are shallow and exhibit a strong vertical shear
- 13. Measures wind speed
- 16. Wind A permanent outflow of plasma from the polar regions of Earth's magnetosphere
- 17. Measures solar radiation
- 18. mass A large body of air with generally uniform temperature and humidity
- 19. Instrument Any device that measures weather-related conditions
Down
- 1. polar air masses are cool, moist, and unstable
- 3. Gauge Collects water falling on it and records the change over time in the rainfall depth
- 4. It measures air and sea surface temperature
- 5. wind Winds that occur in belts that go all around the planet
- 9. Tropical Hot, dry, unstable at low levels
- 10. vane Showing the direction of the wind
- 12. System Low pressure is at its center than the areas around it
- 14. Front The transition zone where a warm air mass is replacing the cold air
- 15. Air mass Low-latitude areas and are moderately warm
- 17. System An area of the Earth's atmosphere has a particularly high or low pressure compared to the air around it