Which way to easterlies move?
What are the four major types of air masses?
Maritime Tropical, Continental Tropical, Maritime Polar, and Continental Polar.
Air pressure
Barometer
Which ways to trade winds move?
East to West
What do air masses cause when they collide with each other?
They form four types of fronts and produce weather.
Wind direction
Wind vane
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
These clouds produce thuderstorms.
Which way to Westerlies move?
West to East
Which way do high and low pressure systems move?
(counterclockwise vs clockwise - which is which?)
High pressure moves clockwise and low pressure moves counterclockwise.
What are cirrus clouds?
These clouds are thin and wispy and are made out of ice crystals
All winds move towards the ______.
Equator
What are air masses?
Large body of air with same temperature and humidity.
Temperature
Thermometer
What are alto clouds?
These clouds are mid level.
What is used to measure wind speed?
An anemometer
What are fronts?
Where two air masses meet
Humidity
Hygrometer