Across
- 1. average measurements of temperature, wind, humidity, snow, and rain in a specific place over the course of years. Like the weather, but over a long time
- 7. a violent rotating column of air extending from a thunderstorm to the ground
- 8. an instrument that measures motions of the ground, including those generated by earthquakes
- 10. the release of water from the sky; it can be liquid or solid, for example, rain, sleet, hail and snow
- 13. the daily state of the atmosphere, or air, in any given place
- 14. Greek for "all lands"; the supercontinent that existed during the Mesozoic era, before the process of plate tectonics separated the continents
- 15. heat-trapping gases; the most common are carbon dioxide and methane
- 16. average long-term changes over the entire Earth, including warming temperatures and changes in precipitation, as well as rising sea levels, shrinking glaciers, ice melting at a faster rate than usual in Greenland, Antarctica and the Arctic, and changes in flower and plant blooming times
- 17. the part of Earth that can support life; includes all living things and the places they live
Down
- 2. an area where two plates slide past each other; these places are often called faults, and they can be areas where earthquakes often occur
- 3. a large ocean wave usually caused by an underwater earthquake or a volcanic explosion
- 4. movement in liquid / air because of heat rising, cool falling
- 5. a large rotating storm with high speed winds that forms over warm waters in tropical areas
- 6. a landform (usually a mountain) where molten rock and hot gases erupt through the surface of the planet
- 9. the shaking, rolling or sudden shock of the earth's surface
- 11. broken pieces made of the Earth's crust or lithosphere
- 12. all the land and rock the planet is made of