Across
- 2. Nino - The unusual warming of the surface waters of the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean. It causes changes in wind patterns that have major effects on weather all across the globe.
- 4. stream -the movement of surface air masses and weather systems above North America
- 5. - A visible collection of tiny water droplets
- 6. scientist who studies weather
- 9. breeze - a convection current where air flows from land to sea during the nighttime
- 10. mass horizontally moving air
- 12. the weather conditions of a certain place or season, averaged over years, decades, or centuries
- 16. - high level clouds
- 18. - changing from water vapor becomes liquid
- 22. - form of water that falls from a cloud to the Earth
- 23. - low level clouds
- 24. front - A boundary between two air masses (one cold and the other warm) moving so that the warmer air replaces the colder air.
- 28. breeze - a convection current where air flows from sea to land during the daytime
- 29. - middle level clouds
- 30. - changing from liquid to water vapor
- 31. vane - instrument used to measure wind direction
- 32. - excess water that the ground cannot absorb
- 33. pressure system - A whirling mass of cool, dry air
- 34. front - A boundary between two air masses that more or less doesn’t move, but some stationary fronts can wobble back and forth for several hundred miles a day.
Down
- 1. state of the atmosphere at any given time and place
- 3. front - A combination of two fronts that form when a cold front overtakes a warm front
- 7. Stream - a warm swift current in the Atlantic Ocean that flows from the Gulf of Mexico along the eastern coast of the United States and then northeast toward Europe.
- 8. pressure system - - A whirling mass of warm, moist aircold front - A boundary between two air masses (one cold and the other warm) moving so that the colder air replaces the warmer air.
- 11. - blanket-like cloud that produces rain and snow
- 13. - plants give off water through stomata in leaves
- 14. Nina - A widespread cooling of the surface waters of the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean. It’s the opposite of El Niño.
- 15. pressure - the weight of air pressing down on earth
- 17. - instrument used to measure wind speed
- 19. - a rain cloud
- 20. large region of the atmosphere where the air has similar properties throughout, such as temperature, humidity, and air pressure.
- 21. - tall cumulus clouds
- 25. westerlies - winds that occur between 30° and 60° in both hemispheres
- 26. wind - moves great distances over the globe
- 27. - the amount of water vapor in the air