Across
- 3. The average weather
- 6. the invisible mixture of gases that surrounds the earth
- 8. violent atmospheric disturbance, characterized by low barometric pressure, cloud cover, precipitation, strong winds, and possibly lightning and thunder
- 9. a rapid rotating storm originating over tropical oceans from where it draws the energy to develop
- 11. water, which is refrozen in the atmosphere, before falling back to the ground as a sizable ice ball
- 15. scientific instrument used to measure atmospheric pressure
Down
- 1. the movement of air
- 2. the perpendicular force per unit area
- 4. measure of hotness or coldness
- 5. made of the layers of gases surrounding a planet or other celestial body
- 7. An overflow of water onto normally dry land
- 10. a mass of tiny water drops or ice crystals that floats in the air above Earth
- 12. a group of loosely connected ice crystals
- 13. liquid precipitation
- 14. the amount of water vapor in the air