Across
- 3. The name given to storms that make landfall in East Asia
- 6. The movement of air across Earth’s surface
- 9. Where energy comes from that unevenly heats the Earth
- 10. Measure of how strongly Earth’s atmosphere presses down on a given area
- 11. The air mass that is moved between two air masses in a stationary weather front
- 13. Boundary where two air masses meet
- 15. Average annual conditions in an area
- 18. Air masses that generate a dry environment
- 21. Speed of warm fronts
- 22. The name given to storms that make landfall in Australia and East Africa
- 24. Air masses that form over land
- 25. Amount of water that is evaporated into the atmosphere
- 26. Width of the high-speed bands of wind that flow from west to east around Earth
- 27. The part of Earth that is warmed before the atmosphere
- 28. As ocean temperatures (increase / decrease), air mass temperature and wind speed above the ocean do the same to form a tropical cyclone
Down
- 1. Type of pressure given by cool air
- 2. Earth rotates from west to east, causing global winds to curve from the poles to the equator
- 4. Temperature of water that weakens tropical cyclones, typhoons, and/or hurricanes
- 5. Ocean waves move warm water from this location to the poles
- 7. The direction that hurricanes rotate before making landfall in the Americas
- 8. What cold air/water does in a convection current
- 12. Shapes that can be found on cold fronts
- 14. Air masses that generate a humid environment
- 16. Type of pressure given by warm air
- 17. Air masses that form over water
- 19. Conditions in the atmosphere at a given place and time
- 20. Due to the curve of the Earth, the planet is warmed _________, meaning the poles receive less light
- 23. What warm air/water does in a convection current