Across
- 3. A spinning air mass inside a thunderstorm that may create a tornado.
- 5. Water in the form of a gas.
- 9. Frozen or partly frozen rain.
- 10. The study of the atmosphere, weather, and forecasting the weather.
- 13. A dense, puffy cloud form with a flat bottom and rounded top ; these clouds are fluffy on sunny days, but the piled-up towering ones produce rain and thunderstorms.
- 14. The process that changes water to vapor to liquid water again ; it occurs when water vapor cools.
- 16. The air around the Earth.
- 19. A heavy snowstorm with strong winds.
- 20. An instrument that uses radio waves to find rain.
- 22. (n) A weather prediction ; (v) To predict the weather based on a study of the weather-related data.
- 24. An imaginary line around the center of the Earth.
Down
- 1. Precipitation in the form of small balls or lumps of ice.
- 2. A tool used to measure atmospheric conditions that is dropped with a parachute from a plane.
- 4. A wispy cloud form that does not produce rain but may mean the weather will change.
- 6. A tool that measures wind speed.
- 7. The conditions and changes in the atmosphere.
- 8. A destructive windstorm over land with a whirling funnel cloud that extends toward the ground.
- 11. Water that falls to Earth from the atmosphere.
- 12. A long period of less-than-normal rainfall in an area ; it can damage crops and cause a shortage of water for people.
- 15. A spacecraft with instruments and cameras to observe the Earth atmosphere .
- 17. The process that changes liquid water to vapor.
- 18. The gases in the Earth's atmosphere.
- 21. A low flat cloud form.
- 23. A person who studies meteorology.