Weather Review

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Across
  1. 2. Nino - The unusual warming of the surface waters of the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean. It causes changes in wind patterns that have major effects on weather all across the globe.
  2. 4. stream -the movement of surface air masses and weather systems above North America
  3. 5. - A visible collection of tiny water droplets
  4. 6. scientist who studies weather
  5. 9. breeze - a convection current where air flows from land to sea during the nighttime
  6. 10. mass horizontally moving air
  7. 12. the weather conditions of a certain place or season, averaged over years, decades, or centuries
  8. 16. - high level clouds
  9. 18. - changing from water vapor becomes liquid
  10. 22. - form of water that falls from a cloud to the Earth
  11. 23. - low level clouds
  12. 24. front - A boundary between two air masses (one cold and the other warm) moving so that the warmer air replaces the colder air.
  13. 28. breeze - a convection current where air flows from sea to land during the daytime
  14. 29. - middle level clouds
  15. 30. - changing from liquid to water vapor
  16. 31. vane - instrument used to measure wind direction
  17. 32. - excess water that the ground cannot absorb
  18. 33. pressure system - A whirling mass of cool, dry air
  19. 34. front - A boundary between two air masses that more or less doesn’t move, but some stationary fronts can wobble back and forth for several hundred miles a day.
Down
  1. 1. state of the atmosphere at any given time and place
  2. 3. front - A combination of two fronts that form when a cold front overtakes a warm front
  3. 7. Stream - a warm swift current in the Atlantic Ocean that flows from the Gulf of Mexico along the eastern coast of the United States and then northeast toward Europe.
  4. 8. pressure system - - A whirling mass of warm, moist aircold front - A boundary between two air masses (one cold and the other warm) moving so that the colder air replaces the warmer air.
  5. 11. - blanket-like cloud that produces rain and snow
  6. 13. - plants give off water through stomata in leaves
  7. 14. Nina - A widespread cooling of the surface waters of the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean. It’s the opposite of El Niño.
  8. 15. pressure - the weight of air pressing down on earth
  9. 17. - instrument used to measure wind speed
  10. 19. - a rain cloud
  11. 20. large region of the atmosphere where the air has similar properties throughout, such as temperature, humidity, and air pressure.
  12. 21. - tall cumulus clouds
  13. 25. westerlies - winds that occur between 30° and 60° in both hemispheres
  14. 26. wind - moves great distances over the globe
  15. 27. - the amount of water vapor in the air