Weather Test 1 Review

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Across
  1. 2. the amount of water vapor in the air
  2. 5. the third layer where meteors burn up
  3. 8. the thin layer of gases that surrounds the planet
  4. 9. the weight of the column of air pressing down on an area
  5. 10. atmospheric gas that is essential to life because plants must have it to make food
  6. 11. it provides all of the energy for weather
  7. 14. Instrument used to measure air pressure
  8. 15. Layer where satellites and space station orbit.
  9. 16. atmospheric gas that is essential to life because it is needed to change stored food into energy
  10. 18. the hotness or coldness of the air
Down
  1. 1. this layer contains most of the mass of the atmosphere and its where weather happens
  2. 3. Layer where lots of energy changes gas particles into ions--these ions cause auroras and radio waves can bounce off of them
  3. 4. the condition of the Earth's atmosphere at a particular place and time
  4. 6. Layer just above us--it has the jet stream and ozone layer
  5. 7. Instrument used to measure temperature
  6. 12. atmospheric gas that is essential to life because it is a part of proteins
  7. 13. Tiny solids and liquids such as dust, salt, smoke, etc. that are part of our atmosphere too
  8. 17. the most important atmospheric gas in terms of weather