Air Masses and Fronts
The four fronts are
What are cold fronts, warm fronts, occluded fronts, and stationary fronts?
What is maritime Polar?
The placement of surface ocean currents
What is the surface?
The placement of the deep ocean currents
What is below the surface?
A stationary front is
What is the boundary between a weak cold front and a weak warm front?
What is clear, dry, hot weather?
Surface currents as well as deep currents flow like
What is rivers or streams?
Deep currents are mainly controlled by
What is density?
Air masses are
What is a large body of air with the same moisture and temperature?
Weather maps are important because
What is because they are used for weather forecasting?
When surface currents collide with land, they
What is change direction?
Two things that effect density are
What is temperature and salinity?
A front is when
What is when two air masses meet?
On the news, when the weather man/woman says that there will be a cold front coming in, that means that the weather will be
What is stormy weather?
The three things that control surface currents
What are global winds, the Coriolis Effect, and continental deflections?
Deep oceans currents do a cycle in which warm and cold water move from the equator or poles and to the opposite of where they had started, this cycling is also known as
What is convection?
When a cold air mass and warm air mass clash, they
What is create snow?
When watching the weather channel, you see a bunch of curved lines with either pointy triangles, half circles, or even both! But a warm front has the
What are the half circles?
The Coriolis effect is
What is circulating air that is deflected clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and counterclockwise in the Southern Hemisphere?
Salinity is
What is the amount of dissolved salt in a body of water?