Air Masses Paterns
What is an air mass?
a group of air with similar properties.
What is the Coriolis Effect
The Coriolis Effect makes things (like planes or currents of air) traveling long distances around Earth appear to move at a curve as opposed to a straight line.
What is a front?
The boundary where two air masses with different temperatures and densities meet.
Maritime air masses form over what?
Ocean
The Coriolis effect is the result of
The Earth's rotation
Cold
Warm
Stationery
Tropical air is?
Warm, wet and low pressure
How is the horizontal deflection effect caused by the Coriolis Force distributed.
its greater near the poles
How is a "warm front" formed?
Forms when warm air moves over cold air. They move slowly and bring humid air.
How do scientist classify air masses?
Temperature
Humidity
In which direction will an ocean current that is traveling south from the North Pole curve due to Coriolis Effect?
how is a "stationery front" formed?
When cold and warm air masses meet but neither one has enough force to move the other. May cause clouds and rain.
Name the four major types of Air Masses in North America
Maritime Tropical
Continental Tropical
Maritime Polar
Continental Polar
Which way does the effect go?
Right in the northern hemisphere
Left in the southern hemisphere
What is a "fast moving warm air mass that overtakes a slowly moving cold air mass"?
A warm front