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Air Masses
Fronts
Water Cycle
Winds
Clouds
100
Warm and wet air mass
What is a maritime tropical?
100
Cold dense fast moving air that runs into warm less dense air and slides underneath it
What is a cold front?
100
An underground layer of porous rock or sand that contains water.
What is a aquifer?
100
The horizontal movement of air from areas of high pressure to areas of low pressure.
What does wind mean?
100
6,000 m
At about what altitude do cirrus clouds form?
200
Warm and dry air mass
What is a continental tropical?
200
Warm less dense fast moving air that runs inti more dense cold air and slides over the top of it
What is a warm front?
200
A place where water is stored
What is reservoir?
200
Towards the land.
Where do local winds blow towards during the day?
200
2,000 to 6,000 m
Around which altitude do Altostratus clouds form?
300
Cold and wet air mass
What is a maritime polar?
300
A cold and warm front meet but they cannot move past one another
What is a stationary front?
300
The process in which plants absorb water from the ground and release water vapor through their leaves
What is transpiration?
300
Towards the ocean.
Where do local winds blow towards during the night?
300
0 to 2,000 m
At about what altitude do cumulonimbus clouds form?
400
Cold and dry air mass
What is a continental polar?
400
A warm air mass gets caught between two cold air masses and pushed upwards
What is a occluded front?
400
It can cause serious flooding and erosion + carry contaminants into lakes and oceans
How are runoffs a problem?
400
Equator to North Pole
From where to where do global winds blow?
400
Moderate rain
What kind of weather do cumulus clouds bring?
500
Maritime polar and maritime tropical
What air masses might reach California?
500
Rain/Thunderstorm
What type of weather does a cold front bring?
500
0.009%
What percentage of Earth's water is found in lakes?
500
Ocean
During the night where is the low pressure area?
500
Light snow
What kind of weather do stratus clouds bring?