Vocabulary
Air Mass
What is a large body of air with generally uniform temperature and humidity
Continental Tropical Air mass
What Originates over North Africa and the Sahara
What factors impact what the air is like in an air mass
Temperature, Altitude, or Elevation, Moisture
How might the properties of the air masses change when it is late July (summer)
It gets hotter because of the tropical maritime
Continental Polar air mass
What is stable and cold and dry
Warm front
What is it called when a warm air mass is replace a cold air mass
What does stationary front represent, in terms of cold and warm air masses
forms when a cold mass meets a warm mass but neither have enough force to move the other
How might the properties of the air masses change when it is late January (winter)
It gets colder because of the polar maritime
Maritime Polar air mass
What is over the ocean but has moist air
Stationary Front
What forms when a cold mass meets a warm mass but neither have enough force to move the other
How does a occluded form
Warm air mass is stuck between two cold air masses which creates a occluded front
How would you draw a cold front
A row of blue triangles
Cold Front
What moves under warm air forcing warm air up
Occluded Front
What is it called when a warm air mass is caught between two cold air masses
How are the two maritime air masses similar
They both have moist and unstable air
Maritime Tropical Air mass
what originates over the warm waters of the tropics and Gulf of Mexico
Weather Front
What is a boundary between different air mass
How are the two Tropical air masses similar
They both are warm