Across
- 2. surface current that carries warm water from the tropics to the northern altance ocean it is one of the longest surface currents
- 4. forms when cold dry air passes over warm water creating snow
- 8. surface current that carries cold water from the northern Pacific icean
- 11. height above a given level
- 13. the amount of light that reflects of a suface
- 14. during the day the sun warms the air along the mountion slopes
- 16. occurs when an air passes over a mt range in move sdown to the other side warms and dries
- 18. speed how fast air is moving from one place to the next
- 19. occurs when an air mass is forced from a low to a high elevation
- 20. a change in water temp in the eastern Pacific ocean that makes a surface current unusually cold
Down
- 1. at night the air along the mt slopes cools. this air flows into the valley
- 3. air over the land cools faster than the water in the sea
- 5. a change in water temp In the Pacific ocean that produces a warm current
- 6. the height above an object or point in relation to sea or ground level
- 7. at night the air over land heats faster than over water
- 8. the long-term average of weather in a particulr region
- 9. direction expressed as the direction from Wich the wind is blowing
- 10. the direction towards which the wind is going or downwind
- 12. a narrow belt of strong winds that blow in the upper tropsere
- 13. pressure the measure of the force with which air molecules push on a surface
- 15. winds that are forced through a narrow landscape\
- 17. the direction from Wich the wind is blowing or upwind