Across
- 2. when a warm air mass overtakes cold air in an area
- 7. forms over Mexico in the summer
- 12. cold air coming in from the North and South Poles
- 15. someone who studies weather
- 16. the center of a hurricane
- 17. specific winds blowing from east to west
- 18. a light change in wind speed
- 19. forms over Canada in the winter
- 20. the cycle of water
- 22. the air surrounding the Earth
- 23. the boundary between air masses
- 24. the natural tendency on rotating objects to turn right (in the Northern Hemisphere) caused by the rotation of the Earth
Down
- 1. a front with little movement that brings lots of rain
- 3. how pressure is measured (force per unit area)
- 4. winds surrounding the center of a hurricane
- 5. cold air
- 6. forms over the northern Pacific and North Atlantic oceans
- 8. the movement of ocean waters
- 9. wet, hot air
- 10. forms over oceans with lots of moisture
- 11. the way that hurricanes are categorized by their wind speed
- 13. the prediction of weather
- 14. when a faster moving cold front overtakes a mass of warm air
- 21. when cold air replaces warm air in an area