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Air Masses
Fronts
Clouds and Pressures
Vocabulary
Wind and weather
100
What type of air mass is warm and wet?
What is Martime Tropical
100
What is the boundary where unlike air masses meet but do not mix?
What are fronts?
100
These are the three main components of a cloud.
What is water vapor, dust particles, and temperatures below dew point.
100
What is the direct transfer of energy through space by electromagnetic waves?
What is Radiation
100
What is the horizontal movement of air from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure
What is wind
200
What type of air mass is warm and dry?
What is Continental Tropical
200
What is cold dense fast moving air that runs into warm less dense air and slides underneath it?
What is a cold front
200
What is water vapor that has condensed into millions of tiny droplets or ice crystals?
What are clouds?
200
The movement of a fluid that transfers heat from one part of the fluid to another.
What is convection?
200
What is the condition of earth's atmosphere at a particular time and place.
What is weather?
300
What type of air mass cold and wet?
What is Maritime Polar?
300
What is warm and less dense fast moving air that runs into more dense, cold air and slides over the top of it?
What is Warm Front?
300
This system goes clockwise and outward.
What is a High Pressure System
300
What is the direct transfer of heat between two substances that are touching
What is Conduction
300
What is the amount of water vapor in the air
What is Humidity
400
What type of air mass is cold and dry
What is Continental Polar
400
What is a cold and warm air mass that meets but they cannot move past one another?
What is a Stationary Front?
400
This system goes counter clockwise and inward.
What is low pressure system?
400
What is a place where water can be stored underground?
What is an Aquifer
400
What is any form of water that falls from clouds and reaches Earth's surface
What is precipitation
500
What is a huge body of air that has similar temperature, humidity, and pressure?
What is an air mass?
500
What is a warm air mass that gets caught between two cold air masses and pushed forward?
What is Occluded Front
500
This weather is associated with a high pressure system
What is casual weather
500
What is the process by which water molecules and liquid water escape into the air as water vapor
What is Evaporation
500
What is the process by which molecules of water vapor in the air become liquid water?
What is Condensation