Air Masses
What is an air mass?
What is a large body of air that has similar temperature and humidity.
What is a weather front?
What is a boundary between two different air masses?
Winds move from areas of _____ pressure to areas of _____ pressure.
What is high pressure to low pressure?
This type of air mass forms over land and is dry.
What is a continental air mass?
This type of weather system spins counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and brings bad weather like storms.
What is a cyclone?
Air masses are classified based on two main factors: temperature and this.
What is humidity or moisture?
What type of front brings light rain and more humid air?
What is a warm front?
These winds move air masses from one place to another, helping to transport weather patterns across the globe.
What are prevailing winds, westerlies, and jet streams?
This type of air mass forms over the ocean and is moist.
What is a maritime air mass?
This type of weather system brings clear, calm weather and spins clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere.
What is an anticyclone?
The type of air mass that can bring warm, humid air from the Oceans in Mexico is called this.
What is a tropical maritime air mass?
What type of front brings heavy rain and drier humidity?
What is a cold front?
This is the main cause of wind,.
What is the unequal heating?
This type of air mass forms over the polar regions and is cold.
What is a polar air mass?
In the Northern Hemisphere, a anticyclone spins in this direction.
What is clockwise direction?
The type of air mass that can bring cold, dry air from Alaska is called this.
What is a Continental Polar air mass?
A boundary between two air masses that are neither advancing nor retreating is called this.
What is a stationary front?
This effect, caused by Earth's rotation, makes cycles and anticyclones curve instead of traveling in a straight line.
What is the Coriolis effect?
This type of air mass forms over the regions near the equator.
What is tropical air mass?
In the Northern Hemisphere, a cyclone spins in this direction.
What is a counterclockwise direction?
Why do weather fronts form?
What is different air masses collide and do not mix?
How do occluded fronts form?
What is warm air masses is stuck between two cold air masses?
The center of a cyclone is called this, where the weather is calm.
What is the eye of the storm?