Across
- 4. front the boundary between two air masses.
- 8. a spinning column of low pressure air that moves in a narrow path over land
- 10. a low pressure,heavy rainstorm that includes lightning as well as thunder and forms from rising war, air and sinking cold air
- 13. winds the directional winds that usually occur in a region
- 14. a weather instrument that measures air pressure
- 15. vane a weather instrument to measure wind direction
- 16. stream a narrow band of winds greater than 57 miles per hour is the upper atmosphere
Down
- 1. pressure air pressure associated with falling air, fair skies and dry conditions
- 2. pressure air pressure associated with rising air,cloudy skies and rainy conditions
- 3. pressure a measure of the amount of pressure being exerted on a location by the atmosphere.
- 5. the gasses that surround the earth.
- 6. a large rotating storm with very low rising air pressure that begins over warm ocean waters
- 7. effect the movement of air to the right on earth, caused by earths rotation
- 9. mass a large body of air with relatively uniform characteristics.
- 11. a measure of the amount of water vapor in the air
- 12. a weather instrument that measures wind speed
