Across
- 3. a condition that occurs when water overflows the natural or artificial confines of a stream or river; the water also may accumulate by drainage over low-lying areas
- 6. a front in which the boundary between cool and warm air masses in that are not moving
- 8. the mixture of gases that make-up the earth's atmosphere
- 10. a person who studies meteorology or weather. Some examples include research meteorologist, climatologist, operational meteorologist, TV meteorologist
- 12. the process of a liquid changing into a vapor or gas
- 14. an instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure
- 15. an area of low pressure around which winds blow counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere
Down
- 1. metric unit of atmospheric pressure
- 2. process by which water vapor becomes a liquid; the opposite of evaporation, which is the conversion of liquid to vapor.
- 4. storm with lightning and thunder, produced by a cumulonimbus cloud, usually producing gusty winds, heavy rain and sometimes hail
- 5. the boundary or transition zone between two different air masses. The basic frontal types are cold fronts, warm fronts and occluded fronts
- 7. an instrument for measuring temperature
- 9. amount of water vapor in the atmosphere
- 11. cycle of evaporation and condensation that controls the distribution of the earth's water as it evaporates from bodies of water, condenses, precipitates, and returns to those bodies of water. Also called hydrologic cycle.
- 13. a large body of air in which the atmospheric pressure is higher than the pressure in the surrounding air. The winds blow clockwise around an anticyclone in in the Northern Hemisphere