Causes of weather
The study of atmospheric phenomenon?
What is Meteorology.
This effect, along with the heat imbalance on Earth, creates the three major global wind systems.
What is the Coriolis effect
Boundaries between two air masses
What is a front
Where are maritime tropical air masses found?
There are found over large bodies of water.
What does the root sphere mean?
What is round
The state of the atmosphere?
What is weather.
This wind system occurs at 30 degrees north and south latitude, where air sinks, warms, and moves toward the equator in a westerly direction
What is trade winds
In surface low-pressure systems, the air does this
What is a rise
Continental tropical air masses are formed where and are what?
Continental tropical air masses are formed over land and are dry and warm
What is the layer of the atmosphere that we live in?
What is the troposphere
This is the term of long lasting weather in a specific place?
What is climate.
This wind system flows between 30 and 60 degrees north and south latitude in a circular pattern opposite that of the trade winds
What is prevailing westerlies
What are the different fronts?
What is....
Cold front
Warm front
Occluded front
Stationary front
What happens if a continental polar air mass moves from and to ocean.
The air mass becomes warmer
Where is the ozone layer located?
What is the stratosphere
Air that sticks together because it has the same temperature and humidity?
What is air mass.
This wind system lies between 60 degrees latitude and the poles
What is polar easterlies
What does a meteorologist do?
What is they predict temperature and wind patterns
What does air pressure do to air masses?
It may change the weather
As we go up the atmosphere what happens to altitude?
What is it increases
Why are properties of air sometimes different?
What is it depends on the location and all air is not the same.
These are narrow bands of fast, high-altitude, westerly winds
What is the jet stream
What is a stationary front? What weather does it bring?
A stationary front is a cold and a warm front that meet, but both do not have the force to push each other out. it brings days of rain or snow.
What is the difference between polar and tropical air masses?
The polar air mass is cold and forms near the poles and the tropical air mass is warm and forms near the equator.
Where is the Aurora Borealis located
It is located in the thermosphere