Across
- 3. The prevalent long term weather conditions in a particular area.
- 5. A soil layer below the surface of tundra regions that remains frozen permanently.
- 8. A cooling of the equatorial waters in the Pacific Ocean.
- 9. A period of abnormally hot weather lasting several days.
- 10. A thinning of ozone layer over Antarctica, which occurs each spring.
- 12. The force exerted by the interaction of the atmosphere and gravity.
- 13. Liquid or solid water that falls from the atmosphere and reaches the ground.
- 14. The temperature to which the air must be cooled for water vapor to condense and form fog or cloud.
Down
- 1. An instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure.
- 2. Air that rises easily and can form clouds and rain.
- 4. A temperature scale in which zero is the freezing point of water and one hundred is the boiling point.
- 6. The process of a liquid changing into a vapor or gas.
- 7. Rain drops that freeze into ice pellets before reaching the ground.
- 11. A major warming if the equatorial waters in the eastern Pacific Ocean.
- 15. In summer, refers to four to seven degrees Celsius above normal.