Tropical Cyclones

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Across
  1. 2. When warm moist air is drawn to the centre of the storm
  2. 5. another word for Low Pressure
  3. 7. air currents closer to Earth's surface that blow from east to west near the equator
  4. 8. the effect of the spinning Earth on descending air, affecting the direction it moves towards the equator, and also the direction of TC spin
  5. 12. Location of our main case study
  6. 14. The name of our main case study cyclone
  7. 15. Waste left behind after forestry practices which is often washed into rivers
  8. 18. The boundary between earths climate layer and the stratosphere
  9. 19. air exiting the storm system
  10. 20. One half of the globe
  11. 22. A tropical cyclone, but spins the other way in the Northern hemisphere
  12. 24. Where the stongest winds are found in a TC
  13. 27. The area where cyclones form near the equator. ITCZ.
Down
  1. 1. What can go up to 250km/h in a cyclone?
  2. 3. What becomes much bigger during a TC?
  3. 4. the increase of salt concentration in soil
  4. 6. curved band clouds that spiral out from the eye wall
  5. 8. Direction of TC spinning
  6. 9. Month that both Gita and Gabrielle occurred
  7. 10. when water vapour turns into liquid
  8. 11. One main component needed to form a tropical cyclone
  9. 13. What are fast moving paths of air high in the atmosphere
  10. 15. surge raising of sea level due to low pressure system
  11. 16. pressure When air risies form the earths surface leaving an area where the atmosphere is inflicting less force
  12. 17. temperature What needs to be at 26.5 for a cyclone to form
  13. 21. The center of the cyclone, where the weather is calm.
  14. 23. a cloud and precipitation structure associated with an area of rainfall which is significantly elongated
  15. 25. A TC is s type of _______
  16. 26. pressure when the air rises, and leaves behind a vacuum.