Air Masses and Fronts
A large volume of air.
What is Air mass?
Large global patterns in the atmosphere.
What is weather?
A current that moves by wind
What is a Surface current?
A current that is controlled by water density.
What is a Deep current?
When air masses meet.
What is fronts?
Weather is shown on..
What is a weather map?
Earths rotation affects the path of
What is Surface currents?
A measure of salts/solids dissolved in a liquid.
What is Salinity?
The four forms of air masses.
What is Maritime,Continental,Polar and Tropical?
Weather maps show the conditions.
Weather maps can show?
Three factors that affect surface currents.
What is global winds,the Coriolis effect and the continental deflections?
Deep waters sink into
What is Deep Ocean Basins?
The four forms of fronts.
What is Occluded,Stationary,Warm and Cold fronts?
Research can be found with...
What is a weather map?
The gulf stream and Canary current.
What are two currents together?
Good for marine life and nutrients.
high pressure inside the middle.
What is Anticyclone?
Temperature,Dewpoint,Wind,Cloud cover ect.
What is Weather?
The weekest current
What is the gulf stream current?
The deepest and densest deep current.
What is Antarctic Bottom water?