Air Masses and
Fronts
Weather Maps
Surface Currents
Deep Currents
100

What is the definition of a air mass?

What is a very large volume of air that has a certain moisture content.

100
What does the L stand for?

What is low pressure.

100

What Type of current occurs near the surface?

What is surface currents.

100

What temperature has a higher density warm or cold?

What is cold.

200

What does mP stand for?

What is Maritime Polar.

200

What does the line with triangles on it stand for?

What is a cold front.

200

At what depth does surface currents stop?

What is 200m.

200

what does salinity measure?

What is salt level.

300

How do air masses move?

What is convection.

300

Areas of high pressure are represented by what letter?

What is an H.

300

What animal commonly migrates using surface currents?

What is turtle/sea turtle.

300

At around what depth does deep currents start?

What is 200m.

400

What happens when a warm air mass goes over a cold air mass?

What is warm front.

400

What does a half circle stand for?

What is warm front.
400
What surface current flows from Florida to Iceland?

What is the Gulf stream.

400

What two factors determine density in water?

What is salinity and temperature.

500

What happens when two low energy air masses collide?

What is a stationary Front.

500

What front is represented by half circles and triangles?

What is a stationary front.

500

What shape is a surface current?

What is a ribbon.

500

What deep current is the deepest and densest?

What is the antarctic bottom water.