Warm Front
When a warm air mass slides up and over a cold air mass.
What is a warm front?
When a cold air mass pushes under a warm air mass.
What is a cold front?
The average weather conditions in an area over a long period of time.
What is climate?
What is weather?
A boundary between 2 air masses
What is a Front?
Describes the color and shape of a warm front symbol.
What is red and half circles? (half suns)
Describes the color and shape of a cold front symbol.
What is blue and triangles? (mountains)
When it is summer in the Northern Hemisphere, the southern Hemisphere is in this season.
What is winter?
The direction weather moves across the United States.
What is west to east?
A body of air that has the same temperature and moisture throughout.
What is an Air Mass?
The type of weather you can expect after a warm front moves through.
What is warm weather?
The type of weather you can expect after a cold front moves through.
What is cold weather?
When is is fall in the Northern Hemisphere, it is this season in the Southern Hemisphere.
What is Spring?
The type of precipitation that occurs when it is above 32 degrees Fahrenheit.
What is rain?
An imaginary line around the middle of the earth that is always warm.
What is the equator?
A less dense air mass that rises instead of sinks.
What is a warm air mass?
A more dense air mass that sinks instead of rises.
What is a cold air mass?
The season in which the Northern Hemisphere receives the most direct sunlight.
What is summer?
The type of weather that occurs when the temperature is below 32 degrees Fahrenheit.
What is snow?
A section of the earth that is always cold.
What are the poles? (polar zone)
The type of weather a warm front produces.
What is light rain or snow and warm weather?
They type of weather a cold front produces.
What is Thunderstorms, heavy rain or snow, and cold weather?
The 2 factors that contribute to having different seasons.
What is the tilt of the earth and rotation around the sun?
A storm that forms over water and can produce flooding and damaging winds.
The half of the earth North America can be found in.
What is the Northern Hemisphere?