Atmospheric Features

4. The half of Earth that is north of the equator.
5. An atmospheric cell lying between the Polar cell and the Hadley cell.
9. A way in which heat travels.
10. An effect whereby a mass moving in a rotating system experiences a force.
11. The second layer of the atmosphere surrounding earth.
12. The third layer of the atmosphere surrounding earth.
14. The fourth layer of the atmosphere surrounding earth.
15. Calms of the Intertropical Convergence Zone.
17. Opposite of South Pole.
21. The first layer of the atmosphere surrounding earth.
23. A body of moving water.
24. An invisible line spanning the entire earth.
26. A pattern of atmospheric circulation in which warm air rises near the equator, cools as it travels poleward at high altitude, sinks as cold air, and warms as it travels equatorward.
27. Opposite of clockwise.
30. Winds that reliably blow east to west just north and south of the equator.
31. The force exerted on a surface by the air above it as gravity pulls it to Earth.
33. Opposite of North Pole.

1. This is located around the 30° latitude line.
2. To close in.
3. The half of the earth that lies south of the equator.
6. The fifth layer of the atmosphere surrounding earth.
7. Dry and cold prevailing winds that blow from the east.
8. It has five layer’s.
13. Prevailing winds that blow from the west at midlatitudes.
16. They are subtropical regions known for calm winds and little precipitation.
18. A belt of powerful upper-level winds that sits atop the polar front.
19. Can be Fahrenheit or Celsius.
20. A weak meridional circulation in the high-latitude troposphere characterized by ascending motion in the subpolar latitudes.
22. There’s four in a year.
25. Opposite of counterclockwise.
28. Move or cause to move into a sloping position.
29. The degree of compactness of a substance.
32. To open out.