Across
- 3. it is caused by earth orbiting the sun and being closer or farther from the sun
- 4. the outermost layer of the atmosphere
- 5. direction of the rotation of the hands on a clock
- 7. current a current in a fluid that causes convection
- 10. The North Pole is by definition the northernmost point on the Earth
- 11. The horse latitudes are regions located at about 30 degrees north and south of the equator.
- 12. how fast or slow particles move
- 15. the 2nd layer of the atmosphere
- 18. prevailing winds from the west toward the east in the middle latitudes between 30 and 60 degrees latitude.
- 19. polar jet is located between the 50°-60° latitude lines in both the northern and southern hemispheres
- 20. The trade winds or easterlies are the permanent east-to-west prevailing winds that flow in the Earth's equatorial region
- 22. The northern half of earth
- 25. the 3rd layer of the atmosphere
Down
- 1. in a direction opposite to that of the normal rotation of the hands of a clock
- 2. a mixture of gasses that surround earth
- 5. When air cools, it contracts,
- 6. the imaginary line going through tie middle of the earth
- 8. The southern half of earth
- 9. the lowest region of the atmosphere
- 13. a self-created automatic kinetic energy and force and also a cosmic system that came into existence
- 14. the low-latitude overturning circulations that have air rising at the equator and air sinking at roughly 30° latitude
- 16. Something being turned at a crooked angle
- 17. Something gettinng larger
- 21. The thermosphere is the atmospheric region from ∼85 to ∼500 km altitude
- 23. the average motion of air in the mid-latitudes
- 24. something being inactive for a long time
