Air Masses

Question 1

What is Air mass

Answer 1

A huge body of air that has similar temperature, humidity, and air pressure at any given height.

Question 2

Humidity level

Answer 2

It depends on if the air mass forms over water or land

Question 3

What is temperature?

Answer 3

It depends on the latitude (closer to the equator is warmer and closer to the polls is colder)

Question 4

How does the air mass move?

Answer 4

1. Global wind patterns move air through the glob
2. Helps make weather predictions

Question 5

Jet streams

Answer 5

A band of high-speed winds high up in the atmosphere blowing west to east carry air masses in same direction

Question 6

Prevailing westerlies

Answer 6

Major wind belt over the USA pushes over air masses from the west east

Question 7

1. m= Maritime
2. c= Continental
3. T= tropical
4. P= polar
5. A= arctic

Answer 7

Maritime = overwater
Continental = overland
Tropical = low latitude (hot)
Polar = medium latitude (cool/cold)
Arctic = high latitude (frigid)

Question 8

Continental tropical

Answer 8

Ct, land by equator, dry and hot

Question 9

Continental polar

Answer 9

cP, land mid latitude, dry and cool/cold

Question 10

Continental Arctic

Answer 10

cA, Land Arctic area by the poles, dry and frigid

Question 11

Maritime Tropical

Answer 11

mT, water by equator, wet, and hot

Question 12

Maritime polar

Answer 12

mP, water, mid latitude, wet, and cool /cold

Question 13

What are the characteristics associated with the continental polar air mass?

Answer 13

Cold and dry

Question 14

What type of air mask would form over the warm water near the equator?

Answer 14

Mary time tropical

Question 15

What three characteristics do air molecules have to have in common to be considered an air mass?

Answer 15

Temperature, humidity, and air pressure

Question 16

Front

Answer 16

Boundary between two air masses

Question 17

Stationary front

Answer 17

When an air mess hardly moves or does not move at all for an extended period of time

Question 18

Local weather conditions change due to the movement of..

Answer 18

Air masses

Question 19

An air mass that forms over northern Canada will be ___ and __.

Answer 19

Dry and frigid

Question 20

Why does a cold front tend to push up a warm front?

Answer 20

Cold front move faster because colder is more dense, and there are more molecules of material wedges under warm front, causing it to lift

Question 21

Meteorologist

Answer 21

Is a scientist who studies the weather

Question 22

What do ocean currents do?

Answer 22

They greatly affect the temperature of air masses above the water as well as moisture content acts like a conveyor belt

Question 23

We in the United States are tornadoes most likely to form? Why?

Answer 23

Central plains states because that is the area where cool air form Canada/jetstream (north) the warm air from the Gulf of Mexico (south)

Question 24

Radar

Answer 24

Monitors their formation and warnings are sent out

Question 25

Thunderstorm

Answer 25

They usually formal along a cold front, rapidly rises, air causes, wind, and heavy rain, thunder, booms proceeded when lightning heats up the air and surrounding air is compressed rapidly= release sound energy

Question 26

What’s the dangers of thunderstorms?

Answer 26

Strong winds, rain, deadly lighting, and the danger of flash flood

Question 27

Hurricanes

Answer 27

They are low pressure systems, gain energy from the water warmed by the sun and it’s very long lasting. It could exist for a week or more and can travel thousands of kilometers. 74 miles per hour

Question 28

What’s safety when it comes to hurricanes?

Answer 28

Have a three day supply of food, water, diapers, medication and necessary supplies. board up windows and secure things to walls if warned ahead of time and do not go in a basement

Question 29

Blizzards and ice storms

Answer 29

Blizzards are heavy, wind and snow and ice storms can disrupt electric and phone devices can occur suddenly as rainfall begins to freeze drifting snow can stop transportation

Question 30

Droughts

Answer 30

Long period of time with little or no rainfall

Question 31

What can be caused by drought?

Answer 31

Hot and dry weather, and it leads to crop failure, wildfires, drinking water shortages

Question 32

Weather

Answer 32

The average annual conditions of temperature, precipitation, winds and cloud cover in an area

Question 33

Dam

Answer 33

Barrier across a river, helping to redirect the flow of water

Question 34

Levee

Answer 34

A buildup of land which are used near the rivers to block water from flooding over

Question 35

New Mexico has hot, dry weather. What type of air mask will most likely form here?

Answer 35

Continental tropical

Question 36

When cold air masses form Canada meet warm air masses from the Gulf of Mexico, they form..

Answer 36

Tornadoes

Question 37

When two air masses meet they can form tornadoes. What are the two air masses?

Answer 37

CP and MT

Question 38

Cold air is ___ dense, then warm air and therefore ____.

Answer 38

More, sinks

Question 39

Where to protect yourself from this type of storm is to go under a sturdy object or to an underground cellar.

Answer 39

Tornado

Question 40

An air mask that forms over cold/cool water is called ____

Answer 40

Maritime pol

Question 41

What should you do during a tornado?

Answer 41

Get to the lowest possible possible place basement/storm cellar

Question 42

What should you do during a tornado?

Answer 42

Get to the lowest possible possible place basement/storm cellar

Question 43

Tornadoes _____

Answer 43

Form over land in low pressure systems

Question 44

This type of severe weather condition gets its strength from the warm waters it forms in..

Answer 44

Hurricanes