Wheather and Climate
Across
- 2. a type of storm in which powerful rotating winds
- 4. a long-term pattern of weather
- 5. flat and hazy, featureless at a low altitude
- 6. forms when a cold air mass pushes into a warm air mass
- 9. a state of the atmosphere
- 11. water vapor that condenses as warm
- 12. is the sound that comes after lightning strikes
- 15. is when a warm or cold front stops moving
- 16. the continuous movement of water within the earth's atmosphere
- 17. when a warm air mass pushes into a cold air mass
- 18. detached, individual clouds usually spotted at fair weather
- 20. a large types of storms with very high speeds
- 23. measures of the water vapor in the air
Down
- 1. water released from the clouds such as rain, sleet, snow, or hail
- 3. is the temperature at which the atmosphere is saturated with water vapor
- 7. lower pressure at its center than the areas around it
- 8. when a cold front overtakes a warm front
- 10. a storm with large amounts of snow blowing
- 11. a weather system that is the boundary separating two different types of air
- 13. high pressure at its center than the areas around it
- 14. made of crystals and look like long, white, and whispy clouds
- 19. is a giant spark of electricity in the atmosphere and the ground
- 21. is the amount of water vapor in the air
- 22. how warm or cold an object is
- 24. the mass of air