Fronts and Center
A boundary between two air masses.
What is a weather front?
This results from water vapor in the air condensing onto nuclei.
What are clouds?
Light (thermal energy) that comes to earth is referred to as this.
What is insolation?
When this moves into an area, it brings with it the weather characteristics from where it was formed.
What is an air mass?
Wind is caused by this.
What is uneven distribution of thermal energy?
When two air masses collide and neither moves.
What is a stationary front?
This is the tallest type of cloud. It's name means "pile."
What are cumulus clouds?
The amount of insolation that earth receives from the sun is affected by these 2 things.
What is distance from the sun and axial tilt?
The warmest of the air masses.
What is a tropical air mass?
Global wind patterns are driven by these two factors.
This front most often results in cumulonimbus cloud formation and sever weather.
What is a cold front?
These are the 4 basic types of clouds.
What are lenticular, status, culumus and cirrus?
The point at which the earth is farthest from the sun.
What is aphelion?
The air mass subcategory that indicates it was formed over water.
What is maritime?
Wind travels in this direction between 90 and 60 degrees north?
What is towards the equator/south west? (polar easterlies?)
What is a warm front?
These are the lowest type of cloud formed. It's name means "layer."
The two points in the earth's orbit that daytime and nighttime are both 12 hours in both northern and southern hemispheres.
What is the spring and autumnal equinox?
This type of air mass moves the fastest.
What is an arctic air mass?
The way in which the rotation of the earth bends the path of wind, currents and flying objects.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
This forms when two air masses travelling in the same direction collide.
This prefix/suffix means "dark" and it usually indicates what?
The northern hemisphere's winter is at what point of earth's orbit around the sun?
What is perihelion?
These are the 5 types of air masses.
What is arctic, maritime polar, continental polar, maritime tropical and continental tropical?
The trade winds (equator to 30 degrees n/s) travel in this direction.
What is towards the equator and west?