Across
- 4. Organism that must live in an environment that contains oxygen
- 5. Tiny particles or droplets suspended in a
- 6. Height, measured in degrees, of an object above an observer's the horizon
- 7. Angle of the sun above the
- 8. Change in the temperature of a gas caused by expansion- cooling or compression- warming
- 10. Glacier that forms in high mountains where snow accumulates to sufficient depth that it is compressed and recrystallizedinto ice
- 11. Form of physical weathering caused by friction between rock particles
- 12. A device that measures wind speed
- 13. Effect of the weight of the atmosphere pressing on a given surface area
- 14. -273°C, at which molecules have no energy of vibration(heat)
- 15. Large body of air that has relatively uniform conditions of temperature and pressure
- 16. Taking in of energy
Down
- 1. Medium,such as water, wind, or glacial ice, that transports weathered sediments
- 2. Moisture content of the air more commonly expressed as a vapor pressure in millibars
- 3. Age of a rock unit, a fossil, or an event expressed in units of time, such as years
- 6. Angle formed between opposite sides of an object and an observer's eye
- 9. Geologic time that uses numerical time units(years)
- 11. Organism that can live without oxygen