Across
- 3. heating Near the equator, the sun shines straight overhead, and ________ is intense.
- 4. Where the air is sinking, or subsiding, air pressure is
- 8. What does water do when hit with solar energy?
- 12. passes all the way through our atmosphere is absorbed either by the ground surface or by water
- 13. air pressure at the surface is
- 14. what is the result of convection
- 15. what warm air cools it does what?
Down
- 1. we call the equatorial convection cells
- 2. Convection cells expand and ______ seasonally
- 4. Convection cells circulate air, moisture, and ______ around the globe
- 5. the sun shines low on the _______ much of the year and little heat is available for warming the ground
- 6. what develops where cells meet
- 7. We call the mid-latitude and polar cells Ferrell cells and _______
- 9. more vigorous near the equator than at higher latitudes because of the more intense heating from the sun
- 10. Solar energy absorbed by the ground eventually re-radiates as long-wave infrared energy or?
- 11. warmed air does what?