Weather Puzzle
Across
- 3. Rain Cloud or rain droplets containing pollutants.
- 4. warming A theory that increased concentrations of greenhouse gases are causing an elevation in the Earth's surface temperature.
- 8. the process of a liquid changing into a vapor or gas.
- 11. Precipitation in the form of balls or irregular lumps of ice produced by liquid precipitation, freezing and being coated by layers of ice as it is lifted and cooled in strong updrafts of thunderstorms.
- 12. A violent rotating column of air.
- 13. Consists of microscopic water droplets suspended in the air which produce a thin grayish veil over the landscape.
- 14. Water that has condensed close to ground levee.
Down
- 1. Liquid water droplets that fall from the atmosphere.
- 2. An instrument used to detect precipitation by measuring the strength of the electromagnetic signal reflected back.
- 4. Effect / The warming of the atmosphere by the trapping of longwave radiation (heat) being radiated to space.
- 5. Energy emitted in the form of electromagnetic waves.
- 6. Abnormally dry weather in a region over an extended period.
- 7. Any form of visible electrical discharges produced by thunderstorms.
- 9. Flood A flood that occurs within a few hours of heavy or excessive rainfall, dam or levee failure.
- 10. A visible cluster of tiny water and/or ice particles in the atmosphere.