Across
- 2. Winds winds that blow steadily from specific directions over
- 5. Westerlies Winds that mostly affect the weather in the US and
- 6. sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, hydrocarbons, and solid particulates, at a greater level than
- 8. Winds Global winds that flow toward the equator, turning west
- 10. Winds Winds that blow over short distances. Example: Sea
- 16. of the mass will rise and the cooler portions will
- 17. they go. Used frequently by early sailors.
- 18. to East.
- 20. A line on a weather map that joins places that have the
- 23. weather
- 24. caused from sulfur oxides from burning coal mixing
- 25. Process by which, in a fluid being heated, the warmer
- 27. rainwater.
- 28. Pressure System a weather system that usually brings cloudiness and
- 30. ocean in polar areas
- 31. Front When warm and cold fronts collide/combine
- 33. Rain Rain with a slightly lower pH than regular rain water. It
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- 1. Polar Cold dry air. Forms usually over northern Canada and
- 3. and Land Breeze
- 4. Pollution Concentration of trace substances, such as carbon
- 7. Breeze The flow of air from land to water.
- 9. West between 60 and 90 degrees latitude in both
- 11. Tropical Hot, dry air masses mostly in Southwest and northern
- 12. located between 30 and 60 degrees latitude. Move
- 13. Polar Describing a cold, moist air mass that is formed over
- 14. Tropical describing a warm, moist air mass.
- 15. Front A boundary between air masses that don't move possibly causing rain for several days
- 18. Front the front of an advancing mass of warmer air Cold Front A front where cold air moves in under a warm air mass.
- 19. air pressure
- 21. in average air
- 22. Lattitudes An area of calmer winds. Located where most of the
- 26. Easterlies Located near the poles, winds that blow from East
- 29. deserts are located.
- 32. A frequently windless area near the equator