Weather Crossword
Across
- 7. Instrument used to measure rainfall amounts
- 11. Scientists who study the movement and distribution of Earth's water
- 14. Cloud or rain droplets containing pollutants
- 16. Instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure
- 17. Cycle by which water circulates between Earth's land, atmosphere, and oceans
- 18. An instrument to measure humidity
- 19. When water overflows the boundary of a stream or river (or just an excess of water)
- 20. Any water that falls from the sky
- 21. Standard Scale for temperature in the U.S; thirty-two degree freezing point
- 23. Scientists who study the Earth's climate
- 24. Scientists who study weather
- 26. Long term (30 years) weather average for a particular area
Down
- 1. Temperature scale in which zero is the freezing point and one hundred is boiling
- 2. A description of the weather condition usually for seven days
- 3. Describes what's happening outside at a specific time and place
- 4. Scientists who study the atmosphere
- 5. A storm with violent wind, in a tropical cyclone in the Caribbean
- 6. Front Narrow transition zone separating advancing colder air from warm air
- 8. Average monthly temperature and precipitation shown on a graph
- 9. winter conditions of sustained winds with major drifting of snow and extremely cold temps
- 10. Process of liquid (such as water) turing into a gaseous state
- 12. Unprecedented dry weather
- 13. sunrise to sunset
- 15. Mobile Vortex of rotating winds which looks like a funnel and is capable of destruction
- 18. Precipitation in lumps of ice
- 22. Quantity of water vapor in atmosphere; atmospheric moisture
- 25. Liquid water drops that fall from the atmosphere