Air Masses
a large body of air with similar temperatures and humdity
What is a an Air Mass?
Humidity is part of what cycle
What is the water cycle?
How hot or cold something is
What is temperature?
One of the following is not a front:
Warm, cold, occluded, fast
What is fast?
The current conditions in a given time and place. Short term
What is weather?
An air mass formed over Northern Canada
What is a Continental Polar air mass?
Humidity is water in this state of matter
What is gas?
Water that falls to the Earth
What is precipitation?
Two different air masses meeting
What is a front ?
Currents that move air from west to east
Prevailing Westerlies
An air mass that forms over the Pacific Ocean near Mexico
What is Maritime Tropical?
Humidity
What is a measure of moisture in the air ?
Flow of Air on the Earth's Surface
What is wind?
What is storms and changes in weather?
The long term weather patterns of an area
What is climate?
A cold air mass that forms over water
What is Maritime polar?
I can happen on humid days
What is precipitation, dew, or fog?
Cool Dry air that brings fair weather and light winds
What is high Pressure?
A fast moving cold-air mass meeting a slow moving warm-air mass
What is a cold front?
A narrow band of strong winds from west to east
What is Jet stream?
A air mass that is hot and dry
What is Continental Tropical Air mass?
I make humid days feel hotter
What is the sweat cannot evaporate from our skin
Warm, Moist air that brings strong winds and Storms
What is Low pressure?
a warm front is sandwiched by two different colder fronts
What is an occluded front?
Warm Moist air that brings strong winds and storms
What is Low Pressure