Air Masses
How would you describe an air mass that is moist and extremely cold?
What is maritime arctic?
Merry-go-round, 365 days, and seasons describes the characteristics of what?
What is Earth's Revolution?
What is the north most air pressure system?
What is high air pressure?
What kind of front includes three different air masses?
What is occluded front?
What is weather?
What is the purpose of the names tropical, polar, and arctic?
What is to describe an air masses' temperature?
True or False: Someone in the Northern Hemisphere is experiencing the same climate/weather as someone in the Southern Hemisphere.
What is False?
How many stationary fronts are the map?
What is zero?
How can you tell the direction a front is going?
What is the way the symbols are pointing towards?
What are the two characteristics that describe air masses?
What is humidity and temperature?
True or False: Air masses are described by where the air masses are going towards.
What is false?
What is the Coriolis Effect?
What direction is the occluded front moving?
What is W or SW?
What temperature air mass is exiting in a warm front?
What is cold air?
A fish at the bottom of the ocean would have a low what?
What is altitude?
I am an air mass that results in Antarctica being impossible to live in. This riddle describes what air mass?
What is continental arctic?
What is the main reason we have different climates on Earth?
What is uneven heating of Earth from the sun?
What kind of weather would occur if the bottom right corner fronts meet but did not interact?
What is weather of a stationary front? What is light rain, cloudy, wet weather?
How do the three air masses in a occluded front interact?
What is cold air enters, pushing warm air mass up between a cool air mass?
I was born in the desert, dry and hot, I bring summer heat to a sunny spot. I travel from Mexico or the Sahara’s sand. A warm, dry blanket over the land. This describes what air mass?
What is continental tropical?
Which weather map symbol represents air masses that normally form just south of the United States over the Caribbean Sea?
What is mT?
Why is the equator very hot?
What is the sunlight is hitting the equator at a more direct angle?
What kind of front would be near the H symbol?
What is warm front? (Main air in High Pressure Systems is warm air, Main air in warm fronts are warm air)
What are three ways stationary fronts and different from occluded fronts?
What is
Stationary = symbols are on opposite sides, no air mass are interacting, and cloudy/light rain.
Occluded = symbols are on same side, three air masses are interacting, and heavy rain/strong winds
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Identify all characteristics for low pressure systems
What is
Counter-clockwise
Light air (rises)
"Lousy" weather - rain, thunderstorms, snow storms
Main air - warm air
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