Across
- 3. The global wind pattern is also known as the "general circulation"
- 4. the amount of water vapor in a air mass
- 6. anemometer, wind vane, pressure sensor, thermometer, hygrometer, and rain gauge.
- 9. brings light rain and warmer weather
- 10. land by the equator
- 11. boundaries between air masses of different temperatures
- 14. air does this when heated up
- 15. a large body of air with generally uniform temperature and humidity.
- 16. air deos this when cooled
- 17. The local weather conditions that we experience at the Earth's surface are related to these air masses and fronts.
Down
- 1. ocean by the equator
- 2. ocean by the poles
- 5. a narrow variable band of very strong predominantly westerly air currents encircling the globe several miles above the earth.
- 7. bring thunderstorms and cooler weather
- 8. land by the poles
- 12. indicator of weather
- 13. an effect whereby a mass moving in a rotating system experiences a force