Air Masses and Fronts
Notes on Air Masses
1: The continental polar has cold and very dry air. A maritime tropical air mass has cool and humid air. The arctic air mass has warm, moist air.
2: Our answers are correct because we put the right air descriptions in the right place.
Notes on Fronts:
- Air masses are large volumes of air with the temperature and moisture
- they have the same characteristics as the area that they form above
- if they form above a tropical latitude, it will have warm air and vice versa
1: The continental polar has cold and very dry air. A maritime tropical air mass has cool and humid air. The arctic air mass has warm, moist air.
2: Our answers are correct because we put the right air descriptions in the right place.
Notes on Fronts:
- it is a boundary between two different air masses
- they happen when there are two different air masses with different temperatures collide
- there are four different types of fronts
- a cold front separates fast moving cold air and warm air
- rain usually happens
- temperatures and humidity decreases after a cold front
- they happen when slower moving warm air replaces retreating cold air
- it usually produces light to moderate rain
- warmer temperatures and higher humidity happen after a warm front
- they are not moving
- they form a boundary between stationary warm air and stationary cold air
- it happens when a warm front is being passed by a cold front