Air Masses
Marked on weather maps as a line with triangles on it.
What is a cold front?
The moisture content in an air mass that forms over land
What is dry?
A type of front made of cold, dense air. Rain, snow, thurnderstorms and strong winds are caused by this front. Usually, the precipitation does not last very long.
What is a cold front?
Marked on a weather map as a line with half circles on it.
What is a warm front?
Carries weather instruments and experiments as far up as the stratosphere.
What are weather balloons?
Temperature of an air mass that forms far from the equator, or in regions near the north and south pole.
What is a cold?
The name of a large body of air with similar temperature and humidity
What is an air mass
The color of the symbol that represents a cold front
What is blue?
The long term average temperature and precipitation of an area.
What is climate?
Temperature of an air mass that forms near the equator.
What is warm?
The type of front formed when a large mass of warm air takes over the cooler air mass. Usually produce rain, fog, or snow that is light but steady.
What is a warm front?
What happens to the temperature following a cold front.
It gets colder.
The short-term conditions of the atmospher.
What is weather?
Characteristic of an air mass that forms over water.
What is wet/humid?
The edge of an air mass.
What is a front?
The color of the symbol that represents a warm front.
What is red
The 4 types of precipitation.
What are rain, snow, sleet, and hail?
The extreme weather that can result from high pressure and low pressure circulating here in Colorado.
What is a tornado?