MISC
A front is a _________ between two air masses.
What is a boundary?
This front is represented by red circles.
What is a warm front?
Air _____ in the low pressure system.
Air _____ in high pressure.
sinks
rises
This front is represented by blue triangles on a weather map.
What is a cold front?
This front forms when a cold air mass slides under a warm air mass and lifts it up to forms clouds.
What is a cold front?
Air in a high pressure system is ___.
Air in a low pressure system is ____.
dry
humid
1. a breeze that goes from land to sea
2. a breeze that goes from sea to land
1. sea breeze
2. land breeze
This front forms when warm air slides over cold air.
What is a warm front
This front forms when a cold air mass meets a cool air mass with a warm air mass in the middle. The warm air mass gets cut off from the ground and is forced upward to create clouds.
What is occluded front?
Air flows ___ __ high pressure, and then to low pressure.
out of
This front is represented by purple triangles and circles all going the same direction.
What is an occluded front?
This air mass is represented by red circles and blue triangles. The circles and triangles are facing opposite directions.
What is a stationary front?
High pressure air systems bring _____ skies
clear
when do sea breezes happen, and when do land breezes happen
sea breezes at night, land breezes at day
This front is when a cold air mass meets a warm air mass and neither one move.
What is a stationary front?
All fronts bring this.
What is precipitation?
The air flows _______ _________ in a low pressure system.
The air flows _________ in a high pressure system
counter clockwise
clockwise