Air Masses and Fronts
This type of air pressure brings pleasant, sunny weather
What is High Pressure?
Half circles represent this kind of front
What is a Warm Front?
Ocean currents transport this kind of water
What is saltwater?
The temperature decreases as the depth increases at this depth
What is 200 meters?
This air mass forms over water
What is a Maritime air mass?
Nice weather is brought by this kind of air pressure
What is High Pressure?
The depth that surface currents can reach
What is 50 to 100 meters deep?
This mineral makes water more dense
What is salt?
This front has little energy
What is a Warm Front?
Cool, miserable weather is a trait of this type of pressure
What is Low Pressure?
This current transports 25 times the amount of water as all the rivers in the world
What is the Gulf Stream?
Ocean currents can reach this depth
The term for a warm, dry air mass
What is a Continental Tropical?
Cold weather is shown by this symbol on a weather map
What is a triangle?
The three causes of surface currents
What are Global winds, continental deflections and the Coriolis effect?
Dense water sinking and warming at the equator is called this type of heating
What is convection?
The fastest moving front
What is a Cold Front?
A stationary front is shown with these shapes
What are half circles and triangles?
This is the cause of the Coriolis effect
What is Earth's rotation on its axis?
Deep currents can reach up to this speed
What is 5.6 miles per hour?