Weather Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. The movement in a fluid where warmer fluid rises and cold fluid sinks
  2. 8. The force exerted onto a surface by the weight of of the air
  3. 12. Coldest layer of the atmosphere, meteors burn up here
  4. 13. Starts at the top of the Troposphere, where most jets fly
  5. 15. A storm with thunder, lightning, and heavy rain or hail
Down
  1. 1. A shell of electrons and electrically charged atoms and molecules, Aurora Borealis occurs here
  2. 2. Invisible rays that come from the sun and can burn skin
  3. 4. A tracking system using the Doppler effect to determine the location and velocity of a storm
  4. 5. The lowest layer of the atmosphere
  5. 6. A large volume of air in the atmosphere that is uniform in temperature
  6. 7. Hottest layer
  7. 9. Fog or haze combined with smoke or other atmospheric pollution
  8. 10. Top of the atmosphere, satellites orbit here
  9. 11. An instrument used to measure atmospheric pressure
  10. 14. A form of oxygen in the upper atmosphere, it absorbs UV rays