Clouds
What is Altitude? or What is Shape?
Air always flows from _____ to _____ pressure areas.
What is high to low?
These are large bodies of air that move across the land.
What are Air masses?
Air tends to flow towards this type of pressure system.
What is low pressure?
A blue line with triangles (or points) used to indicate this type of front on a map.
What is a cold front?
The type of cloud that is at very high altitudes.
What is Cirrus?
During the day the sun heats up the land and the sea. The land heats up faster than the sea causing the air above the land to rise. This creates low pressure air above the land. High pressure air from the ocean rushes on towards the land. This is describing ____
What is Sea Breeze?
This is one of the two types of air masses that describes an air mass that forms over land and is categorized by being dry.
What is Continental?
At the surface air tends to flow in this direction outwards away from high pressure systems
What is clockwise?
This is a type of storm that forms in a low pressure area over tropical waters. It is the most powerful type of storm.
What is a hurricane?
What is Fog
This is the global wind belt that sits directly above or below the equator and blows from east to west.
What are the Trade Winds.
This is an air mass that is categorized as being Wet and cold
What is Maritime Polar
Air converging at a low pressure system creates convergence at the surface forcing air in this direction
What is upwards?
This is when a cold front and a warm from meet and stay put for a period of time.
What is a stationary front?
The Suffix that describes a precipitation producing cloud
What is -nimbus
This is a belt of low pressure that encircles the globe near to equator where the trade winds of both hemispheres converge.
What is the Inter-tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ)?
This is an air mass that is categorized as being Dry and Warm
What is Continental Tropical.
Sinking air creates this type of pressure system at the surface.
What is a high pressure system?
This type of front happens when cold air comes rushing in behind warm air forcing it to rise quickly. Often creating big storms.
What is a cold front?
A type of cloud that is normally categorized by being puffy and located at the mid to lower level elevations.
What is Cumulus?
The name of the convection cell that is between the tropic of cancer and the Arctic Circle.
These are the three names of the different temperatures of air masses.
What is Arctic, Polar, and Tropical?
What is the north pole, the south pole, the Tropic of Cancer, and the Tropic of Capricorn.
These are the three building blocks for a thunderstorm.
What is Moisture, a lifting mechanism and unstable air.