Weather Vocabulary
Across
- 3. most jets fly here
- 6. the state of the atmosphere at a place and time as regards heat, dryness, sunshine, wind, rain, etc.
- 7. a form of oxygen in the upper atmosphere that absorbs UV rays
- 8. the average weather pattern in a particular place or region over years
- 10. hottest layer of the atmosphere
- 11. coldest layer of the atmosphere
- 12. a shell of electrons and the Aurora Borealis occurs here
- 13. the force pushing on an area
- 16. the movement within a fluid by warmer, less dense material to rise
Down
- 1. the sun heats the ground
- 2. instrument used to measure humidity
- 4. instrument measuring atmospheric pressure
- 5. the lowest layer of the atmosphere
- 9. top of the atmosphere where satellites orbit
- 14. fog or haze combined with smoke and other pollutants
- 15. invisible rays that come from the sun