Layers of the Atmosphere
Weather occurs in this layer of the atmosphere.
What is troposphere?
Wind moves from areas of _____ pressure to _____ pressure.
What is high to low?
Name the two types of ocean currents.
What are surface and deep ocean currents?
Name the type of air mass associated with cold and dry weather.
What is Continental Polar?
Boundary between a cold and warm air mass.
What is a front?
This is the most abundant gas in the atmosphere.
What is nitrogen?
These winds are responsible for the movement of much of the weather across the United States and Canada.
What are the prevailing westerlies?
Deep oceans currents are affected by these two things.
What is temperature and salinity?
Name the type of air mass associated with warm and humid weather.
What is maritime tropical?
This type of front can be illustrated on a weather map using blue triangles?
Cold front
The transfer of heat by the flow of a heated material.
What is convection?
Upward and downward currents that result from the uneven heating of the Earth.
What are convection currents?
Deep ocean currents are _______ than surface ocean currents.
What is colder?
What is denser?
What is clear?
This type of front produces low, thick clouds and drizzly rain.
What is a warm front?
The hottest layer of the atmosphere.
What is the thermosphere?
Cool, dense air from the sea flows to the land.
What is sea breeze?
Cold water rising up from deep in the ocean to the surface.
What is upwelling?
Continental tropical air mass produces this type of weather.
What is warm and dry?
This type of front can bring high winds and thunderstorms.
What is a cold front?
The middle layer of the atmosphere. Meteors burn up here.
What is the mesosphere?
Cold winds that blow from east to west near the North and South Poles.
What are polar easterlies?
The model used to explain how thermal energy is transferred by deep ocean currents throughout the world.
What is the Great Ocean Conveyor belt?
Hot and humid weather in Florida is because of this type of air mass.
What is maritime tropical?
This type of front occurs when a cold front "catches up" to a warm front and prevents it from advancing.
What is an occluded front?