Weather and Climate

6. Study of cyclones, hail-storms, blizzards or bushfires.
7. The layer of the atmosphere that stretches from ground level to 16km above the earth. Weather happens here.
11. Called hurricanes in America and typhoons in Asia.
13. The lines on a weather map joining places of equal atmosphere pressure.
14. The name used in the United States for tropical cyclones.
15. The warming of the atmosphere that has been attributed to the burning of fossil fuel.
16. An intense fire which may generate strong winds that throw burning ember ahead of the main fire.
17. Are fluffy, white piles that often evaporate. They can also turn into cumulonimbus clouds.
18. Strong upwards air currents.
19. the flat land on either side of a river that is covered with water during times if high run-off and floods

1. The state of the atmosphere, averaged over a long period of time.
2. the band of gases surrounding the earth.
3. Water returning to the earth in the form of rain. Hail, sleet or snow.
4. A complex word for weather maps.
5. Called tropical cyclones in Australia.
8. The day to day condition of the atmosphere.
9. water is heated by the sun and absorbed into the atmosphere as water vapour
10. Clouds that are found between about 2.5 and 6 kilometres above the ground.
12. where some satellites orbit. It extends for perhaps 10 000 km.
20. Covered with Water.