Weather Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. instrument used to measure air pressure
  2. 5. study of the weather
  3. 7. day to day behavior or current conditions of the atmosphere
  4. 9. weight of air pressing at a given location
  5. 11. layer or blanket of air that surrounds the Earth
  6. 14. water that falls to the earth
  7. 18. winds that flow from west to east and toward the poles
  8. 19. winds that blow toward the equator from North and South latitudes
  9. 20. boundary where two air masses meet
Down
  1. 1. instrument used to measure temperature
  2. 2. two air masses meet and stop moving
  3. 4. forms when air rises , cools to the dew point, and becomes saturated
  4. 6. large bodies of air covering land and oceans that move
  5. 8. water vapor that condenses on a surface
  6. 10. measures how fast air molecules are moving
  7. 12. high in the atmosphere, flowing from west to east
  8. 13. instrument used to measure wind speed
  9. 15. amount of water vapor in the air
  10. 16. a measure of temperature at which more water vapor will condense onto a surface than will evaporate from it
  11. 17. located at the equator and little to no wind