Weather Vocabulary
Across
- 4. instrument that measures temperature
- 7. pellets of frozen rain
- 9. heavy snowstorm with strong winds and very cold temperatures
- 12. pressure caused by the weight of a column of air pushing down on an area
- 15. water that falls from the sky
- 16. a cyclone with powerful winds that follows an unpredictable path over land
- 18. windstorm that lifts up clouds of dust or sand
- 19. to predict something
Down
- 1. a storm with rotating winds
- 2. a front where cold air moves in under a warm mass
- 3. the science of weather
- 5. instrument that measures stmospheric pressure
- 6. a front where warm air moves over cold air
- 7. cyclonic storm that forms over warm, tropical ocean waters
- 8. storm in which freezing rain forms a layer of ice on outside surfaces
- 10. a tube or pipe that is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom
- 11. how hot or cold something is
- 13. water covers an area of land that is usually dry
- 14. large area of air with same temperature & humidity
- 17. the boundary between 2 air masses