Fronts
What is a cold front?
Brings heavy rain, thunderstorms,or snow, weather is cooler and drier
What are the four seasons?
What are air masses?
A large body of air with the same temperature and humidity
How long does a rotation take?
How do Cold currents affect an areas climate?
Cooler and drier climate
What is a warm front?
Brings light rain or snow for a longer time after it passes, it gets warmer and more humid.
Is the Earth we closer to the sun in the summer or the winter?
Winter
What are the types of air masses?
Continental, Maritime, Tropical, Polar
What is an isotherm?
Lines on a weather map connecting areas of same temperature
What happens when two fronts meet?
Weather (rain, wind, snow)
Which season receives the most direct sunlight?
What are isobars?
A line on a weather map that connects places with the same air pressure.Close lines = strong winds.
What is the angle of Earth's axis?
23.5 Degrees
What moves ocean currents?
Wind caused by Earths rotation?
How do meteorologist depict warm and cold fronts on maps?
Blue semi circles, Red triangles
When it is spring in the Northern Hemisphere what season is it in the Southern?
The Fall
What air mass would form over the ocean, in the North pole?
Maritime Polar
What is Earth's axis always pointed towards?
The North Star (Polaris)
Warmer and humid
what are all four fronts
cold, warm, stationary, and occluded fronts
What are the seasons caused by
Caused by Earth’s tilt (23.5°) and its revolution around the Sun.Different parts of Earth get different amounts of sunlight.
What air masses form over land?
Continental
Is Earth's orbit a circle?
False (Eliptical)
Which direction does ocean currents and wind move in the Northern and Southern hemisphere? Why?
N (Clockwise) S (Counterclockwise) Coriolis Effect (Earth's Rotation)