Air Mass
What does the first letter of an air mass represent? mP, cT etc.
What is humidity
Liquid water changes to water vapor.
What is evaporation.
What causes wind?
What is differences in air pressure.
What surface (land or water) heats and cools faster?
What is land.
What does the second letter of an air mass represent? mP, cP etc.
What is temperature.
Water vapor changes to liquid water.
What is condensation
When a warm air mass moves into a cold air mass.
What is a warm front
Name this type of wind: three large convection cells creating wind in the northern hemisphere.
What are global winds.
Name two criteria scientists use to classify clouds?
What is shape, altitude and precipitation.
Describe an air mass with the symbol mT?
What is wet and warm.
The temperature that water vapor condenses to liquid.
What is the dew point.
When a cold air mass moves into a warm air mass.
What is a cold front
Earth's rotation causes winds to move in a diagonal pattern.
What is the Coriolis Effect.
The condition of the atmosphere at a certain time and place.
What is weather.
Describe an air mass with the symbol cT?
What is dry and warm
Measure of the water vapor in the air.
What is humidity
Describe a cold air front symbol.
What is blue triangles.
Narrow belts of fast moving wind high in the upper troposphere.
What are jet streams.
When air below is cloud is above 32 F or 0 F, this type of precipitation falls.
What is rain.
Describe an air mass with the symbol cP?
What is dry and cold.
The ratio of the amount of water vapor in the air to the greatest amount of water vapor the air can hold.
What is relative humidity.
Describe a warm front symbol.
What is red half circles.
Winds that blow over a limited area and are influenced bygeography.
What are local winds.
When air below a cloud is below 32F or 0 C, this type of precipitation falls.
What is snow.