Across
- 3. / circulating air is deflected toward the right in the Northern Hemisphere and toward the left in the Southern Hemisphere
- 6. / El Niño refers to the above-average sea-surface temperatures that periodically develop across the east-central equatorial Pacific. It represents the warm phase of the ENSO cycle. La Niña refers to the periodic cooling of sea-surface temperatures across the east-central equatorial Pacific
- 7. / the line where the earth or sea seems to meet the sky
- 8. / above the earth's surface, extends to outer space, and is characterized by steadily increasing temperature with height
- 9. / the highest layer of the atmosphere in which the gases are all mixed up rather than being layered by their mass
- 10. / low-latitude overturning circulations that have air rising at the equator and air sinking at roughly 30° latitude
- 13. / the common term for the high concentration of ozone that is found in the stratosphere around 15–30km above the earth's surface
- 14. / loam, sandy loam or clay
- 15. / At higher latitudes, air rises and travels toward the poles
- 16. / a patch of land that has been forced to become a desert because mountain ranges blocked all plant-growing, rainy weather
Down
- 1. / the lowest layer of Earth's atmosphere
- 2. / a term for the general physical, chemical, and mineralogical composition of the unconsolidated material, mineral or organic, in which soil forms
- 4. / an upper portion of the atmosphere above the troposphere where temperature changes little and clouds rarely form
- 5. / the movement of ocean currents due to differences in temperature and salinity in different regions of water
- 6. / the uppermost region of the Earth's atmosphere
- 11. / a vertical section of the soil that depicts all of its horizons
- 12. / model of the mid-latitude segment of Earth's wind circulation