Air Mass
Types of Air Mass
Weather Fronts
High and Low Pressure
Misc.
100
What is an air mass
What is a large body of air that extends for miles and miles
100
What type of air forms wet?
What is Maritime
100

what front does cold air move into warm air?

What is a cold front

100
What type of weather does high pressure cause?
What is sunny fair weather
100
A person that studies weather.
What is a meteorologist?
200
Does the air that originates over Canada cold or hot
What is cold
200
What type of air forms on land
What is Continental
200
What front move hot air in and cold air out
What is a warm front
200
what type of weather does low pressure create
What is rainy bad weather
200
Severe weather system that forms in the ocean.
What is a hurricane?
300
Does the air mass over Florida hot or cold
What is hot
300
What type of air is warm
What is tropical
300
What type of front causes cold air and warm air to not move
What is a stationary front
300
High pressure turns which way?
What is Clockwise
300

What is formed when high pressure areas push into low pressure areas?

What is wind is formed?

400

What side of N. America has cold water?

What is West Coast?

400
what type of air is cold
What is polar
400
what type of front has cold, warm, and cool air meet?
What is an occluded front
400
Which way does low pressure turn?
What is counter clockwise
400

What makes convection currents on the stove top different than convection currents in Earth's atmosphere/ocean?

What is the heat on Earth comes from above and not below like the stove?

500

What happens in very warm bodies of water? 26C to 30C

What is hurricanes form

500
what type of air mass is warm and moist
What is maritime tropical
500

What is a weather front?

What is a boundary between two air masses

500
What color is H and what color is L
What is H is Blue and L is Red
500

When heat combines with evaporated moisture forming low pressure and wind in a spiraling motion; in warm water

a hurricane

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