Air Masses and Fronts
Weather Maps
Ocean Currents - Surface
Ocean Currents - Deep
Misc.
100
Changes in weather are caused by the movements of bodies of air called _____.
What Are Air Masses
100
Meteorologists use what to help explain weather conditions over a larger area?
What are Weather Maps
100
Horizontal, streamlike movements of water that are found at or near the surface of the ocean?
What Are Surface Currents
100
Movements of ocean water far below the surface?
What Is A Deep Current
100
What is the name of the imaginary line at 0 degrees longitude?
What is Prime Meridian
200
What are four kinds of Fronts?
What Are Cold Fronts, Warm Fronts, Stationary Fronts, and Occluded Fronts
200
Low pressure brings what weather?
What Is Precipitation
200
Surface currents have no affect on the climate around the world? True or False
False
200
At about what depth do deep currents start?
What is 200 meters
200
Latitude runs...?
What is Left and Right
300
Maritime Tropical (mT) air masses bring what weather?
What is Humidity and Moist
300
An H on a map means it is an area of high temperature? True or False? 
False
300
What is the longest surface current?
What Is The Gulf Stream
300
Deep Currents are mainly controlled by what?
What are Changes In Water Density
300
Lines north and south of the equators are called?
What are Parallels
400
What kind of air mass causes hot, clear, dry summer weather in the United States?
What is Continental Tropical (cT)
400
What Front Is This?
What Is Occluded Front
400
In which direction does the largest surface current, the gulf stream, flow in.
What is North East
400
An increase in what may result into a deep current?
What is Salinity
400
Every 2 to 12 years, the South Pacific trade winds move less warm water to the western Pacific than usual?
What is El Nino
500
What do scientists classify air masses by?
What is Water Content and Air Temperature
500
You are experiencing what front if the weather is cloudy, wet weather for a few days?
What is Stationary Front
500
What are 3 factors that control the path of a surface current?
What are Global Winds, Corllios Effect, Continental Deflections
500
What is a deep current also known as?
What is thermohaline circulation
500
Describe the temperature and moisture of a cT air mass?
What is Warm and Dry