Air Pressure
High pressure is
Cool, dry air
The high, quick moving wind
Jet Stream
What are the largest contributors to air pollution
Cars, trucks, planes, and trains
The layer with weather
Troposphere
Warm air advancing on cold air
Warm Front
Low pressure is
Warm, moist air
Winds that blow across the USA from West to East
Prevailing Westerlies
4 Chemicals
Nitric Oxide, Carbon Monoxide, Ozone, Hydrocarbons
Layer with the ozone layer
Stratosphere
Two air masses butting heads in a stalemate
Stationary front
Low pressure spins ________ in the Northern Hemisphere
Counterclockwise towards the center
Winds that blow from East to West across the equator
Trade Winds
What way do winds curve
Right in the northern hemisphere,
Left in the southern hemisphere
Farthest layer
exosphere
Causes long drought out showers
Warm front
High pressure systems spin _______ in the northern hemisphere
Clockwise
How do sea breezes move
Coriolis effect
Coldest layer
Mesophere
Cold air advancing on warm air
Cold front
_____ tends to ______
High pressure tends to low pressure
What are the 4 types or local winds
Sea, land, mountain, and valley
How does a convection cell move
Warm air rises, circulates over, cools, comes down, then moves across to take the warm airs place
Largest Layer
Thermosphere
Cool air advancing on a warm front and connecting to the other cool air mass
Occluded front