Air Masses & Fronts
What kind of front causes warm, light weather?
What is a warm front
What do red bumps stand for on a weather map?
What is a warm front?
Where are surface currents located?
Where is the surface of the ocean?
Where in the ocean are deep currents located?
What is the deep ocean? (deep inside the ocean)
What air mass is warm and wet?
What is maritime Tropical
What does the blue triangle stand for on a weather map?
What is a cold front?
What is the coriolis effect?
What is the deflection of a moving object from a straight path due to the earth’s rotation?
Other than mass, what can affect the density of saltwater?
What is salinity?
What happens when a cold air mass moves under a warm air mass?
How does a cold front form?
What does the H stand for on a weather map?
What is high pressure?
How do surface currents move?
What is global winds?
What causes deep currents to move?
What is density?
What happens when a warm air mass gets caught in between a cold air mass?
How does an occluded front form?
what does the L stand for on a weather map?
What is low pressure?
What causes currents to deflect or change direction?
What are continental deflections?
What is density?
What is the amount of matter in a given space or volume?
What is a source region for wet and warm air masses?
What is the Gulf of Mexico?
What does a curved line with blue triangles on one side, and red bumps on the other stand for?
What is a stationary front?
Which surface current carries 25 times as much water than all rivers on earth combined?
What is the Gulf Stream?
Where is some of the deepest and densest water in the ocean located?
What is Antarctic bottom water?