Weather
Across
- 2. Direction objects are deflected in the Southern Hemisphere
- 5. Rounded individual cloud masses "a pile"
- 6. Prefix used for rain clouds
- 8. Direction objects are deflected in the Northern Hemisphere
- 12. A center of low pressure
- 15. Changing from liquid to gas
- 16. Upward movement of an air mass resulting from surface heating
- 18. Sheets or layers that cover much of the sky
- 19. Any form of water that falls from a cloud
- 20. Main precipitation makers
- 22. Lowest layer of Earth's atmosphere
- 23. A cloud with its base at or very near the ground
- 24. General term for the amount of water vapor in the air
- 25. A boundary between two adjoining air masses having contrasting characteristics
Down
- 1. A center of high pressure
- 3. Conversion of solid directly to gas
- 4. Orographic lifting occurs when ______ act as barriers
- 7. Changing from gas to liquid
- 9. Instrument used to measure relative humidity
- 10. ______ Effect: how Earth's rotation affects moving objects
- 11. Fast moving river of air
- 13. Clouds that are high, white, and thin
- 14. Maximum amount of water vapor air can hold at a given temperature and pressure
- 17. Hygrometer used with wet and dry bulbs
- 21. Conversion of vapor directly to a solid