Weather and Climate Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• winds : movement of air that redistributes the sun's heat over the earth's surface
• revolution : when the earth revolves, or moves, around the sun in a nearly circular path called an orbit.
• rotation : when the earth moves through space and it spins on its axis
• latitude : distance from the equator
• equinoxes : markers for seasonal change occur around march 21 and september 21
• global warming : according to scientists: the increasing amounts of carbon dioxide and other substances in the earth's atmosphere that is causing a rise in the earth's temperature
• convection : the transfer of heat from one place to another
• greenhouse effect : is the process by which radiation from a planet's atmosphere warms the planet's surface to a temperature above what it would be without its atmosphere
• currents : distributing heat by carrying warm water from the tropics to the poles
• precipitation : all forms of water that fall from the atmosphere onto the earth's surface
• solstices : occur around june 21 and december 21 and the sun appears directly overhead at the tropics of capricorn and cancer
• weather : condition of the bottom layer of the earth's atmosphere in one place over a short period of time
• climate : weather patterns that an area typically experiences over a long period of time