Air Masses and Fronts
Large body of air that has the same moisture and temperature throughout
What is an air mass?
The weather Seattle would experience with an “H” indicating the weather
What is happy and sunny weather?
The direction surface currents travel
What is horizontally?
What deep currents are controlled by
What is density?
The benefit of up-welling
What is nutrients support plankton which are the base of the food chain?
A boundary where two masses clash
What is a front?
The weather Denver would experience if they were on the LEFT side of a cold front
What is cold and snowy weather?
The earth’s rotation impacting the path of surface currents
What is the Coriolis effect?
The two factors that affect density
What is temperature and salinity?
The cause of “La Nina”
What is surface water temperatures suddenly become cool?
A front that rises over another front
What is a warm front?
The weather an area would experience if a cold and a warm front collided
What is rainy and humid weather?
Three reasons the path of surface currents do not move straight
What are continental deflections, the Coriolis effect, and global winds?
Salinity is a measure of the amount of ___ or ____ dissolved in a liquid
What are salts and solids?
The weather anticyclones bring
What is clear weather?
How a warm and dry front would be indicated
What is a continental-tropical front (cT)?
The reason an area experiences “happy and sunny” weather
What is atmospheric pressure being greater than surrounding air?
The heat from warm water currents moves into ____, or into the ______.
What is colder water and atmosphere?
A cause of the density in the ocean water increasing and sinking towards the bottom of the ocean
What is deep currents form?
Where the deepest and densest water forms
What is the Antarctic Bottom Water?
A warm air mass between two cold air masses
What is an occluded front?
The weather Denver would be experiencing if Chicago has a heat wave headed toward them
What is humid and warm weather?
The area where the winds blow mostly west to east
What is between 30 and 60 degrees latitude?
Three ways that the density in the ocean can increase
What is decreasing temperature, increasing salinity through freezing, and increasing salinity through evaporation?
The surface current that carries warm water along the equator toward the West Coast of South America
What is the Equatorial Counter Current?