Air Masses & Fronts
Weather only occurs on what?
What is a front?
What does the letter H represent on a weather map?
What is high pressure?
What three factors affect surface currents?
What is global wind, the coriolis effect, and continental deflects?
What is a deep current?
What is a streamlike movement of ocean water far below the ocean surface?
How many air masses are in the US?
What is 4?
What does a blue line with triangles represent?
What is a cold front?
What can surface currents reach of depth of?
What 3 factors affect deep currents?
What is water density, temperature, and amount of salt?
The symbol (ct) for air masses means what for the area?
What is warm and dry?
What type of weather does high pressure produce?
What is calm weather?
The coriolis effect is caused by what?
Deep currents form when the density of ocean water ____?
What is increase?
What is a cold front?
What is a cold air mass moves under a warm air mass?
What does a warm front look like on a weather map?
Without continents how would surface currents move?
What is move more uniform?
What type of water has the MOST density?
What is salty, cold water?
What is a occluded front?
What is a warm air mass that is caught between two cold air masses and brings cold and stormy weather?
What does a stationary front look like on a weather map?
What is one side with blue spikes and the other side with red bumps?
The Gulf Stream transports ____ times more water than all rivers in the world?
What is 25?
Why do deep current form near the poles?
What is the poles is where the water is more dense and colder?