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Down: 1) a small whirlwind or air vortex over land, visible as a column of dust and debris. 3) the angular distance of a place north or south of the earth's equator, or of a celestial object north or south of the celestial equator, usually expressed in degrees and minutes. 6) A backing wind is a wind that turns counter-clockwise with height.7) A rain shadow is a dry area on the leeward side of a mountainous area. The mountains block the passage of rain-producing weather systems and cast a "shadow" of dryness behind them.8) energy that a body possesses by virtue of being in motion. 10) Cumulonimbus calvus is a moderately tall cumulonimbus cloud which is capable of precipitation, but has not yet reached the tropopause, which is the height of stratospheric stability where it forms into a cumulonimbus capillatus or cumulonimbus incus.12) hot molten or semifluid rock erupted from a volcano or fissure, or solid rock resulting from cooling of this. 15) a large volcanic crater, typically one formed by a major eruption leading to the collapse of the mouth of the volcano. Across: 2) fog or haze combined with smoke and other atmospheric pollutants. 4) a mass of whirling fluid or air, especially a whirlpool or whirlwind. 5) a glacial episode during a past geological period. 9) Obliquity is an astronomical term describing the angle of tilt of the Earth's axis of rotation11) a device for collecting and measuring the amount of rain that falls. 13) a quantity expressing the effective lowering of the air temperature caused by the wind, especially as affecting the rate of heat loss from an object or human body or as perceived by an exposed person. 14) An ocean current is any more or less permanent or continuous, directed movement of ocean water that flows in one of the Earth's oceans.16) an arch of colors formed in the sky in certain circumstances, caused by the refraction and dispersion of the sun's light by rain or other water droplets in the atmosphere. 17) the horizontally extended upper part of a cumulonimbus cloud18) A ground fire can occur in any conditions and is where peat, coal, tree roots or other materials ignite and burn under the ground19) a mass of snow, ice, and rocks falling rapidly down a mountainside. 20) a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.
 

 

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