Across
- 1. The third layer of the atmosphere surrounding earth.
- 3. The fifth layer of the atmosphere surrounding earth.
- 7. Calms of the Intertropical Convergence Zone.
- 9. To close in.
- 12. The half of Earth that is north of the Equator.
- 13. The force exerted on a surface by the air above it as gravity pulls it to Earth.
- 15. An effect whereby a mass moving in a rotating system experiences a force.
- 17. The degree of compactness of a substance.
- 19. They are subtropical regions known for calm winds and little precipitation.
- 20. Can be Fahrenheit or Celsius.
- 23. Opposite of South Pole.
- 24. A way in which heat travels.
- 27. Dry and cold prevailing winds that blow from the east.
- 28. There’s four in a year.
- 29. A weak meridional circulation in the high-latitude troposphere characterized by ascending motion in the subpolar latitudes.
- 30. An atmospheric cell lying between the Polar cell and the Hadley cell.
- 31. It has five layer’s.
Down
- 2. An invisible line spanning the entire earth.
- 4. 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.
- 5. Winds that reliably blow east to west just north and south of the equator.
- 6. The first layer of the atmosphere surrounding earth.
- 8. This is located around the 30° latitude line.
- 10. Move or cause to move into a sloping position.
- 11. To open out.
- 14. No
- 15. A body of moving water.
- 16. Opposite of clockwise.
- 18. Prevailing winds that blow from the west at midlatitudes.
- 21. Opposite of counterclockwise.
- 22. A belt of powerful upper-level winds that sits atop the polar front.
- 25. Opposite of North Pole.
- 26. The fourth layer of the atmosphere surrounding earth.
- 32. The second layer of the atmosphere surrounding earth.