Across
- 1. an increase of a substance while its mass remains the same
- 4. a mixture of gasses that surrounds the earth.
- 6. a natural phenomenon that happens near the equator
- 7. hempisphere half of earth between the South Pole and the equator
- 10. a year is made up of four of these.
- 12. the measure of hotness or coldness expressed in terms of any of several scales including Fahrenheit and Celsius
- 14. the highest layer of the atmosphere in which the gases are all mixed up rather than being layered by their mass
- 17. an imaginary line around the middle of a planet or other celestial body.
- 18. jet stream a belt of powerful upper-level winds that sit atop the polar front
- 19. in a direction to that in which th elands of a clock rotate as viewed from in front
- 23. degree of consistency measured by the quantity of mass per unit volume
- 24. the outermost layer of out atmosphere
Down
- 2. the half of earth north of the equator
- 3. winds air currents closer to the earths surface that blows from east to west near the equator
- 5. proceeds in the same direction as a clocks hand
- 8. Pole the southernmost point on earth
- 9. layer of earths atmosphere lying between the troposphere and the mesophere
- 11. Pole the northernmost point on earth
- 13. cells an atmospheric cell lying between the polar cell and the Hadley cell
- 15. cells the smallest weakest cells
- 16. cells a pattern of atmostoheric circulation in which warm air rises near the aquator and cools as it travels poleward at high altitude
- 19. to shorten to become reduced in size
- 20. the angle between an objects rotational axis and its orbital axis
- 21. effect an internal or fictitious force that acts on objects in motion within a frame of reference that rotates with respect to an inertial frame.
- 22. pressure a scientific unit of pressure