Atmosphere crossword

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