Weather Vocab

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Across
  1. 2. Located between 30° and 60° latitude. They blow from the west, toward the poles.
  2. 4. all the ice, water, water vapor on Earth, including oceans, lakes and rivers, etc.
  3. 6. Effect the cause of winds near the equator in the northern and southern hemispheres to curve west caused by the earth’s rotation
  4. 7. Currents a large volume of water flowing in a certain direction
  5. 9. the amount of water vapor in the air
  6. 10. Front a zone where faster moving warm air mass collides with a cold air mass resulting in prolonged, light precipitation
  7. 13. the long-term pattern of weather in an area
  8. 15. Winds large wind belts that encircle the globe
  9. 16. a tropical cyclone that forms in the northwest pacific ocean
  10. 17. Pressure a large body of circulating air with high pressure at its center and lower pressure outside of the system
  11. 20. the atmosphere conditions along with short-term changes of a certain place at a certain time
  12. 22. Currents when temperature differences cause liquids and gases to expand and move; the less dense areas continually rise and more dense areas continually sink, creating a cyclical current
  13. 23. Cyclone an intense circular storm that originates over warm tropical oceans
  14. 24. a boundary between two air masses
Down
  1. 1. Easterlies Found between 60° latitude and the poles. They blow from the east, toward the equator.
  2. 3. water in liquid or solid form that falls from the atmosphere
  3. 5. Map a map showing the state of the weather over a large area
  4. 8. Winds Found between 30° N latitude and 30°S. They blow from the east, toward the equator.
  5. 11. layer of gases surrounding Earth.
  6. 12. Breeze a wind that blows from land to sea
  7. 14. Pressure a large body of circulating air with low pressure at its center and higher pressure outside of the system
  8. 17. a tropical cyclone that forms in the Atlantic and east pacific ocean
  9. 18. Stream a narrow band of fast moving high-altitude wind flowing west to east that affects weather conditions on earth
  10. 19. Breeze a wind that blows from sea onto land
  11. 21. Mass large bodies of air that have a uniform temperature, pressure, and humidity
  12. 22. Front a zone where a faster moving cold air mass collides with a warm air mass, usually results in brief, intense precipitation