Weather and Climate Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 1. increase in size, number, or range
  2. 4. The half of the earth that is above the equator
  3. 7. moving in the opposite direction the hands of a clock do. In a circular direction, moving left on the top, right on the bottom.
  4. 9. the measurement of the amount of mass per unit of volume of a substance
  5. 12. The innermost layer of an atmosphere
  6. 14. The fourth layer of an atmosphere
  7. 17. decrease in size, number, or range
  8. 19. the force exerted by air, on any surface in contact with it
  9. 20. moving in the same direction the hands of a clock do. In a circular direction, moving right on the top, left on the bottom.
  10. 21. A figurative line drawn horizontally across the middle of the earth that is equally distant from both the North Pole and the South Pole
  11. 22. belt around the earth near the equator where ships sometimes get stuck due to windless waters
Down
  1. 2. the northernmost point of the earth — the uppermost part of Earth’s axis
  2. 3. The third layer of an atmosphere
  3. 5. The half of the earth that is above the equator
  4. 6. The layers of gasses surrounding a planet (or other celestial body)
  5. 8. a mid-latitude atmospheric circulation cell for weather named by Ferrel in the 19th century
  6. 10. a sloping position or movement
  7. 11. The second layer of an atmosphere
  8. 13. the southernmost point of the earth — the lowermost part of Earth’s axis
  9. 15. The outermost layer of an atmosphere
  10. 16. as a result of the Earth rotating on its axis, circulating air is deflected toward the right in the Northern Hemisphere and toward the left in the Southern Hemisphere
  11. 18. a large-scale atmospheric convection cell in which air rises at the equator and sinks at medium latitudes, typically about 30° north or south