Air masses and Fronts
What kind of air mass forms over the ocean?
What is, a Maritime air mass.
What weather does a low pressure system bring?
What is, cloudy windy weather.
What Are surface currents?
What are, Horizontal movements of water that are found at or close to the surface of the ocean.
What is the definition of deep currents?
What are, movements of water far below the surface.
What kind of air mass forms over continents?
What are, continental air masses.
What kind of weather do stationary fronts bring?
What are, many days of cloudy, wet weather.
What kind of weather does a High pressure system bring?
What causes surface currents?
What are, the global winds.
What is the definition of density?
What is it called when cold, nutrient rich water from the deep ocean replaces warm surface water?
What is, upwelling.
What kind of front forms when a cold air mass moves under a warm air mass?
What is, a cold front.
What does a meteorologist study?
What are, changes in weather.
What is one of the largest surface currents in the world, that flows across the Atlantic ocean.
What is, the gulf steam.
What is a word for the measure of the amounts of salts or solids dissolved in a liquid?
What is, salinity.
What are the imaginary vertical lines that show the distance east or west of the prime meridian?
What is, longitude.
What kind of front forms when a warm air mass is caught between to cold air masses.
What is, an occluded front.
What influences air pressure?
What is, air temperature and mass.
What do surface currents distribute?
What is, Heat.
Why do deep currents form?
What is, when ocean waters density increases and it sinks.
What is the temperature and cloud cover outside right now considered?
What does the first letter of the two letter symbol that meteorologists use to classify air masses?
What is, the air masses water content.
What would the weather be like in Houston, Texas. in three days, if a warm front was moving east from Phoenix, Arizona.
What is, clear, dry and hot weather.
What does the Coriolis effect do to currents?
What is, curve the currents.
What is a part of the water cycle that makes ocean water denser?
What is, evaporation.
What direction does the jet stream flow?
What is, east to west.