Weather Terms

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Across
  1. 3. warm air gets pushed off of the ground between cold and cool air
  2. 5. rain, snow, sleet, or hail that falls to the ground
  3. 8. Temperature which air needs to be cooled in order to reach saturation
  4. 10. a body of air
  5. 12. cold air moves in pushing warm air up; cooler temperatures and thunderstorms
  6. 13. the measure of the force that air molecules push against the surface
  7. 14. a large gray rain cloud
  8. 15. clouds in layers, indicates cooling air
Down
  1. 1. high , white, feathery, ice clouds
  2. 2. warm air mass staying still next to a cold air mass, causing lots of precipitation
  3. 4. cloud forming a towering mass with a flat base at fairly low altitude and often a flat top, as in thunderstorms
  4. 6. tropical, temperate and polar (divided based on long term weather patterns)
  5. 7. a mixture of gasses that surrounds the Earth
  6. 9. warm air moving in, sliding over cold air with long periods of precipitation
  7. 11. thick puffy "fair weather clouds", flat bottoms "bubble tops"