Heat transfer
Heat transfer through direct contact.
What is conduction?
The measure of the weight of air pressing down on a given area of Earth’s surface.
What is air pressure?
These occur due to air moving from high pressure to low pressure (differences in air pressure).
What is wind?
A large body of air that has similar temperature and humidity.
What is an air mass?
A boundary between two air masses.
What is a front?
Heat transfer through empty space.
What is radiation?
Type of air pressure that is cooler, sinks, and brings dry weather.
What is high pressure?
These winds blow almost constantly in every direction.
What are global winds?
This air mass is made of warm and dry air.
What is Continental Tropical?
This type of front happens when air masses meet but cannot move one another.
What is a stationary front?
The circulation pattern of warm molecules rising and cool molecules sinking.
What is a convection current?
Type of air pressure that is warm, rises, and brings rainy weather.
What is low pressure?
These are temporary winds that blow in an area and are produced by temperature differences caused by geographical features.
What are local winds?
This air mass is made of cool and moist air.
What is Maritime Polar?
This type of front forms when a cold air mass moves out a warm air mass.
What is a cold front?
The flow of energy from warmer places to cooler places due to differences in temperature.
What is heat?
Cooler (more dense) air always __________ and exerts more pressure on the area beneath it.
What is sinks?
These local winds occur when land heats up during the day and the air over the land gets warmer than the air over the water.
What is a sea breeze?
This air mass is made of cool and dry air.
What is Continental Polar?
This type of front forms when a warm air mass moves out a cold air mass.
What is a warm front?
Land heats up faster than water and cools down __________ than water.
What is faster?
Air that is closer to the poles is __________ and more dense than the air near the equator.
What is colder?
These local winds occur when land cools down at night and air over the land gets cooler than air over the water.
What is a land breeze?
This air mass is made of warm and moist air.
What is Maritime Tropical?
This type of front is where two cold air masses meet and push out a warm air mass.
What is an occluded front?