Weather Unit

3. This side of a mountain gets most of the rain
4. What the sun gives off
7. This gives plants it's colour
9. Instrument used to measure wind speed
12. a storm with lightning and thunder
15. It is a climate pattern where the water in the Pacific Ocean near the equator gets hotter than usual
16. What we call storms in the Western Pacific Ocean. Another name for hurricane
19. Damage to the skin due to prolonged exposure to cold temperatures
22. Gas that comes from the exhaust of cars
24. We have 4 of these each year
25. Stay away from these during a lightning storm
26. Name given to tornado scale
27. Is a moving mass of snow that may contain ice, snow, rocks and uprooted trees.
29. It is an electric current
30. Thunderstorm that can produce violent tornadoes with winds over 200mph
32. The center of a storm
33. Is created when small water droplets are caught in the updraft of a thunderstorm and they freeze

1. One way to combat global warming
2. Is the temperature your body feels when the air temperature is combined with the wind speed
5. The _________ effect is caused by gases trapping the suns energy
6. is the first layer of the atmosphere called?
8. Is the process by which plants lose water out of their leaves
10. Violent rotating column of air extending from a thunderstorm to the ground
11. A boundary between two different air masses
13. A huge storm that can have winds up to 200mph
14. Without this we would have not weather
17. Summer _________ happens on June 21
18. Sudden descent or drop of cool or cold air to the ground
19. Is white ice crystals that form on a surface, like the ground or leaves of a plant
20. Rain drops that freeze into ice pellets before reaching the ground
21. Professional weather person
23. These cover over 70% of the earth's surface
28. Is the amount of water vapor in the air
31. This side of a mountain gets very little rain