The Weather Test

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Across
  1. 5. Condensation particles are made out of small ice and _______
  2. 7. Precipitation of a large area with gentle, light rain is an example of a ____ front
  3. 8. Weather fronts are not part of global _____ which includes polar easterlies, westerlies, and trade winds
  4. 13. Weak winds between the trades or northern and southern hemisphere are known as
  5. 14. An air mass that originates in the U.S southwest and brings cold, moist air
  6. 16. Continental Polar, Continental Tropical, Maritime Polar, Maritime Tropical
  7. 18. Highest Level Clouds
  8. 19. An air mass that originates in canada and brings dry, cold air
  9. 20. Nimbo or Nimbus means
  10. 22. What must be present for a cloud to form
  11. 23. Clouds that bring rain and thunderstorms
  12. 24. An air mass that brings dry warm air
Down
  1. 1. The suns energy travels as
  2. 2. The front edge of an advancing mass of warm air that pat replacer cooler air with warmer air
  3. 3. The front edge of a moving mas of cold air that pushes beneath a warmer air mass like a wedge
  4. 4. An air mass that originates in north america and and the north pacific areas and brings cold, moist air
  5. 6. the expansion of air that rises and cools
  6. 9. A brief, heavy storm with rain, wind, lighting and thunder
  7. 10. A destructive, rotating, funnel shaped column of air with high wind speeds
  8. 11. The prevailing winds that blow over north america
  9. 12. An air mass that originates in southern atlantic and pacific areas and brings warm, moist air
  10. 15. When a front that forms when a cold air mass overtakes a warm air mass and lifts the warm air mass off the ground and over another air mass
  11. 17. Body of air where the temp. is the same is called an ___ mass
  12. 21. A severe storm that develops over tropical oceans, whose strong winds spiral in toward the low-pressure storm center