Weather Vocabulary part 2
Across
- 4. water vapor in the air
- 6. a weather instrument that shows the direction the wind is coming from
- 7. a large “bubble” of air that has about the same temperature and humidity throughout it
- 8. a place where one air mass meets and pushes aside another air mass
- 10. a weather instrument that measures rainfall
- 11. a weather instrument that measures air pressure
- 12. the average speed of the particles in a substance
- 14. a warm current that starts near the equator and moves from Florida all the way to Iceland
- 15. a breeze blowing toward the land from the sea , especially during the day, because land is warmer than the sea.
- 16. a very large and violent tropical storm
Down
- 1. unusual warming or cooling of the seawater in the Pacific Ocean
- 2. a breeze blowing toward the sea from the land, especially at night, because the sea is warmer than the land.
- 3. a weather instrument that measures wind speed
- 5. a tool that measures temperature
- 9. the weight of the air pushing on everything around it
- 13. a steady worldwide wind that blows from west to east high above Earth