Air Masses
This is the type of air mass represented by the symbol cP.
What is continental polar?
This is the name for the boundary where two air masses meet.
What is a front?
This is the symbol used on a weather map to represent a high pressure system.
What is a blue H?
This is how you can determine which direction a weather front is moving on a weather map.
What is the direction the symbols are facing?
This is the name for the tool used to measure wind direction.
What is a weather vane or wind sock?
What kind of temperature and moisture content is associated with a maritime polar air mass?
What is cold and wet?
This weather front forms when a warm air mass slowly moves over a cold, denser air mass, it produces drizzly rain and then clear sunny weather.
What is a warm front?
What is rising air that condenses to form clouds?
This is the difference between weather and climate.
What is climate is the long-term average weather in a region while weather is referencing the daily conditions?
This is the name for the person who analyzes weather data and create weather forecasts.
What is a meteorologist?
These are the two aspects of weather which can be determined by where an air mass forms.
What are temperature and moisture content?
This is the weather front that forms when a cold air mass pushes up a warm air mass, it will get colder and we will have severe weather.
What is a cold front?
Cool, dense particles are associated with this type of pressure system.
What is high pressure?
This is the tool used to measure air pressure.
What is a barometer?
What is precipitation?
This is the type of air mass that would most likely form over land in Mexico.
What is continental tropical?
This type of weather front forms when a warm air mass and a cold air mass meet, but neither has enough force to move the other.
What is a stationary front?
Wind blows from areas of low pressure to areas of high pressure. (True/False)
What is false?
This type of weather front is represented by alternating triangles and semi-circles on the same side of the line on a weather map.
What is an occluded front?
This is the name for the small circle on a weather map that shows the location of a weather station.
What is a station model?
This is the name for the area in which an air mass forms.
What is a source region?
This is the front that forms when a warm air mass is trapped between two cooler air masses.
What is an occluded front?
Nashville has atmospheric pressure readings as follows:
Monday - 31.5
Tuesday - 30.8
Wednesday - 28.4
This would be the day that is most likely to experience rain.
What is Wednesday?
This is the term used to describe rain, freezing rain, snow, sleet, and hail.
This is the name for the weather instrument used to measure wind speed.
What is an anemometer?