CLIMATE vocabulary words

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 4. The quantity of water falling to earth at a specific place within a specified period of time (13)
  2. 8. The ___ of an advancing mass of ___ air (9)
  3. 9. Whether it's rainy, sunny or windy outside (7)
  4. 10. German physicist who invented the mercury thermometer and developed the scale of temperature (10)
  5. 11. Frozen flakes that fall in winter (4)

Down

  1. 1. How hot or cold something is (11)
  2. 2. Water falling from clouds (4)
  3. 3. A shortage of rainfall (7)
  4. 5. A measure for arcs and angles (6)
  5. 6. A storm with widespread snowfall accompanied by strong winds (8)
  6. 7. Swedish astronomer who devised the centigrade thermometer (7)
  7. 8. The prevailing psychological state (7)
  8. 10. Ice crystals forming a white deposit (5)