Pressure Gradients
In pressure gradients, air moves in what direction?
From high pressure systems to low pressure systems.
What is it called when heat is transferred through movement?
Convection.
What weather front is shown on a map as a red line with half circles in the direction of movement?
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Warm fronts.
Wind belts that generally move in one direction across the globe.
What is it due to?
Earth's rotation.
How does air move to and from pressure systems?
In a spiral.
Why do cooler fluids sink?
They become denser.
What weather front is a combination of blue triangles and red semi-circles.
Stationary fronts.
Name one of the two causes for prevailing winds?
Differential heating of the earth and the Earth's rotation.
What direction are bodies pushed in NA.
Right.
What kind of pressure leads to clearer skies?
High pressure.
When a fluid rises, it tends to be ________ then the other fluids.
Warmer
If were we experience calm winds with the possibility of some precipitation, what weather front are we experiencing?
Stationary Front
Name one of the two types of prevailing winds.
Easterlies or Westerlies.
Spin of hurricane in Indonesia.
CCW
What kind of pressure leads to warm humid air?
Low pressure.
What is one "loop" of convection currents called?
A convection cell.
What happens to the hot air during a cold front?
It rapidly rises over the cold air and is unstable.
What leads to a stationary front.
A cold air mass meeting a hot air mass and cannot move across each other .
What is the main driver behind air currents?
Pressure gradients.
What do birds use to rise high into the sky easier?
Thermal columns.
How do stationary fronts occur?
When a hot air mass and cold air mass meet and cannot move across eachother.
The direction of the triangles on a cold front line means what ?
Wind direction.