Across
- 1. Cyclone intense rotating storms over warm oceans
- 5. Pressure the force of air pressing down on any surface
- 6. process when a liquid changes to a gas
- 8. branch of science focused on atmosphere, weather, and forecasting
- 10. the imaginary line around the earth that divides it into northern and southern hemispheres
- 12. Vane an instrument that shows the direction in which the wind is blowing
- 14. a force that acts between particles of different substances to hold them together
- 15. the height of an object or point in relation to the starting point of sea or ground level
- 16. Front a boundary separating air masses with differing characteristics
- 18. a force that acts between particles of the same substance to hold them together
- 19. Capacity number of heat units needed to raise the temperature of an object by one degree Celsius
Down
- 2. Parcel a mass of air with characteristics different from the air around it
- 3. layers of gas that surround a planet due to gravity
- 4. any product of condensed water vapor that falls from clouds under gravitational pull
- 5. an instrument used to measure the speed of the wind
- 7. exhalation of water vapor by a plant and its evaporation, mainly through leaves
- 9. the weather conditions of a particular region over a long period of time
- 11. redirection of a wave, such as light, as it passes from one medium to another
- 13. a violently rotating column of air that extends from a storm to the ground
- 17. concentration of water vapor in the air