Air Mass
What is an air mass
What is a large body of air
What type of air forms over water?
What is Maritime
What is a front?
What is a boundary between two air masses
What is it called when warm air rises and cold air sinks?
What is Convection
Is the air that originates over Canada cold or hot
What is cold
Explain the relationship between temperature and altitude.
What is as altitude increases, temperature decreases
Is the air mass over Florida hot or cold
What is hot
What instrument is used to measure air pressure?
What is a barometer
Explain the relationship between humidity and altitude.
What is as altitude increases, humidity decreases
What color is H and what color is L
What is H is Blue and L is Red
Name and Draw the 4 types of fronts.
What is a Warm Front, Cold Front, Stationary Front, and an Occluded Front.
What happens when two air masses meet?
What is a front is formed
What front does cold air move into warm air?
What is a cold front
What happens to air pressure as you move upward into the atmosphere?
What is decreases
Name the 4 types of air masses.
What is Maritime Polar, Maritime Tropical, Continental Polar, and Continental Tropical.