Types of Fronts
A cold mass overtakes a warm air mass
Cold Front
Warm and Humid
Maritime tropical
A huge body of air that has similar temperature, humidity and air pressure
Air mass
The difference between a maritime tropical and a maritime polar is...
The tropical air mass is warm and the polar air mass is cool.
What type of weather does the continental polar bring?
Cool and dry
A moving warm air mass overtakes a moving cold air mass
warm front
Humid and cool
Maritime polar
Bands of high speed winds about 10 kilometers above the Earth's surface
Jet stream
How are maritime tropical and maritime polar alike?
The both are humid air masses.
In the summer, maritime tropical brings what kind of weather?
Hot, humid weather
A cold air mass and a warm air mass meet and remain stalled over an area
Stationary front
Dry and warm
Continental tropical
The boundary where 2 air masses meet
Fronts
How are continental tropical and continental polar alike?
They are both dry air masses.
Cold fronts can bring what kind of weather?
Violent thunderstorms, rain, snow
A warm air mass is caught between 2 cooler air masses
Occluded front
Dry and cool
Continental polar
A swirling center of low pressure
cyclones
How are continental tropical and continental polar different?
The tropical air mass is warm and the polar air mass is cool.
What type of weather do cyclones bring?
Storms and precipitation
Name the four types of fronts
Warm, cold, stationary, occluded
Name all 4 types of air masses
Maritime tropical, maritime polar, continental tropical, and continental polar
A high pressure center of dry air
anticyclone
Name 2 differences between the maritime polar and the continental tropical air masses.
The maritime air mass is wet and the continental air mass is dry. The The polar air mass is cool and the tropical air mass is warm.
What type of weather do anticyclones bring?
Dry, clear weather