How Does Air Temperature Shape a Place?

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Across
  1. 1. urban heat island (area that's hotter than the surrounding rural areas because cities are made up of buildings, roads, and parking lots that absorb and re-emit the sun's heat more than natural landscapes.
  2. 6. protective boundary between outer space and the biosphere that allows for all life to exist on Earth’s surface.
  3. 7. Russian Refreshing & Nutritious Traditional Drink
  4. 9. fraction of light radiation reflected by a surface such as the moon, earth, or a cloud.
  5. 10. incoming solar radiation
  6. 11. gasses held around planet earth by gravity, filtering what is allowed in and out.
  7. 13. the height of a geographic location or feature above or below sea level.
  8. 15. ozone layer that protects life on Earth from the sun's harmful ultraviolet (UV) radiation
  9. 16. a measure of how much a region's climate is affected by its distance from oceans and oceanic air
Down
  1. 2. a line on a map of the earth's surface connecting points having the same temperature at a given time.
  2. 3. light energy radiated in the form of waves or particles.
  3. 4. nearness or closeness.
  4. 5. distance between the equator and a point north or south on the earth's surface. measured in degrees.
  5. 8. lets insolation in, but does not allow warm air trapped inside to escape.
  6. 12. a vast Russian province encompassing most of Northern Asia.
  7. 14. fairness and justice