Across
- 3. The area of a hurricane with the highest wind speeds and most intense thunderstorms.
- 5. The warm, moist air mass (mT) where tropical storms typically originate and gain energy.
- 8. The force caused by Earth's rotation that deflects winds and causes tropical storms to spin.
- 9. A large-scale system of winds rotating counter-clockwise around a low-pressure center in the Northern Hemisphere.
- 10. The property of water that allows it to store large amounts of energy, keeping oceans warm enough for storm formation.
- 13. The phase change from gas to liquid that forms clouds and releases massive amounts of energy.
Down
- 1. The transfer of heat energy through the rising of warm air and the sinking of cooler, denser air.
- 2. The event that usually causes a storm to weaken because it loses its source of warm, moist air and encounters friction.
- 3. The phase change that moves water and energy from the ocean surface into the atmosphere.
- 4. The scale used to rank hurricanes from 1 to 5 based on their sustained wind speeds.
- 6. The "hidden" energy released during condensation that provides the primary fuel for a hurricane.
- 7. A weather condition of rising, converging air; the central characteristic of all cyclones.
- 11. Surge The most deadly part of a hurricane, consisting of a wall of water pushed onto the coast by high winds.
- 12. The calm, clear center of a hurricane where air is actually sinking rather than rising.
- 14. A line on a weather map connecting points of equal atmospheric pressure; these are very close together in a hurricane.