Weather and Climate

A huge body of air that has similar temperature, pressure, and humidity throughout.

• Continental

• Air mass

• Convection

• Atmosphere

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

The transfer of heat by the movement of a fluid.

• Continental

• Air Mass

• Convection

• Atmosphere

A dry air mass that forms over land.

• Continental

• Air mass

• Convection

• Atmosphere

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

The layer of gases that surround the Earth.

• Continental

• Atmosphere

• Air Mass

• Convection

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

A humid air mass that forms over oceans.

• Maritime

• Warm Front

• Polar

• Weather

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Condition of earth’s atmosphere at a particular time and place.

• Maritime

• Weather

• Polar

• Warm Front

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

A cold air mass that forms north of 50° north latitude or south of 50° south latitude and has high air pressure.

• Maritime

• Warm Front

• Polar

• Weather

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

This forms forms when warm air moves collides with slow moving cold air.

• Weather

• Maritime

• Warm Front

• Polar

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Cut off,as the warm air is cut off from the ground by cooler air beneath it.

• Cold front

• Occluded

• Troposphere

• Exosphere

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

When a rapidly moving cold air mass runs into a slowly moving warm air mass, the denser cold air slides underneath forming this type of front.

• Cold Front

• Occluded

• Exosphere

• Troposphere

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6