Across
- 2. pressure A mass of rising warm air that usually bring wet, stormy weather.
- 4. the natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism.
- 5. an overflowing of a large amount of water beyond its normal confines, especially over what is normally dry land.
- 11. large bodies of air that have uniform temperature, humidity, and pressure.
- 13. An instrument used to measure precipitation.
- 15. Gas to liquid
- 17. a booming or crashing noise caused by air expanding along the path of a bolt of lightning
- 19. A mass of sinking cool air that usually bring fair weather.
- 21. A measure of how hot or cold something is.
- 23. Wispy, feathery clouds made of ice crystals that form at high levels.
- 24. The change of state from a liquid to a gas
- 25. An instrument that measures atmospheric pressure
- 26. The amount of water vapor in the air
- 27. how fast the wind is blowing
- 30. The average weather conditions in an area over a long period of time
- 31. the pressure caused by the weight of a column of air pushing down on an area
- 32. A temperature scale with the freezing point of water 32 degrees and the boiling point of 212 degrees
- 34. a storm with a violent wind that forms over warm, tropical ocean waters
- 35. Fluffy, white clouds, usually with flat bottoms, that look like rounded piles of cotton.
- 36. a stratus cloud that forms when air is cooled to its dew point near the ground
- 37. a cloud forming a towering mass with a flat base at fairly low altitude and often a flat top, as in thunderstorms.
- 38. the condition of being alive
- 39. a solid form of precipitation composed of ice crystals in complex hexagonal form
- 40. An instrument used to measure wind speed
- 41. the pressure caused by the weight of the atmosphere
- 42. Heat energy
Down
- 1. A violently rotating column of air stretching from a cloud to the ground
- 3. A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.
- 6. a long period without rain
- 7. water in the form of a gas
- 8. warm, moist climate zone near the equator
- 9. A very small piece or part; a tiny portion or speck
- 10. liquid precipitation
- 12. a storm with thunder and lightning and typically also heavy rain or hail.
- 14. the movement of air caused by differences in air pressure
- 16. a violent tropical storm that forms in the Pacific Ocean, usually in late summer
- 17. An instrument used to measure temperature
- 18. The condition of Earth's atmosphere at a particular time and place.
- 20. cloud forming a continuous horizontal gray sheet, often with rain or snow.
- 22. A scientist who studies weather
- 28. Any form of water that falls from clouds and reaches Earth's surface.
- 29. Abrupt electric discharge from cloud to cloud or from cloud to earth accompanied by the emission of light
- 33. Referring to something that has never been alive
- 35. Metric unit for measuring temperature; On this scale water freezes at zero and boils at 100.