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What form along fronts?
Along fronts low pressure systems form. Depending on what type of front it is, the air pressure will drastically increase or decrease. Because the front is the edge of an incoming air mass, precipitation occurs often ahead of the front. Fronts of incoming air masses are subject to prevailing winds, and are influenced in direction. Often, clouds form along fronts, which is why when a front has passed in there has been rain, or snow, or any other form of precipitation.
How are fronts and air masses related?
They are both boundaries that occur most often between a front and an air mass.
How is a front formed?
A weather front typically forms when both warm and cool air meet. Both the difference in air temperature, as well as the density of the air, can cause a front. Warm fronts are more slow moving than cold fronts and usually produce precipitation. Fronts are depicted on weather maps with arrows showing where the front has come from and what direction the front is moving.
How are air masses similar?
no.. an air mass is something that takes up space.. a front is something that is moving in, like clouds.. thunderstorms can be caused by fronts, a cold and warm, colliding.. so no, the are not the same.
Where do weather fronts occur?
in between or around or near air masss or where they meet.
What do tornadoes form along?
Tornadoes often, though not always, form along weather fronts, where air masses of differing characteristics collide. The fronts that most commonly produce tornadoes are cold fronts and dry lines.
Fronts form because?
Fronts form in the weather because of convection. There is a boundary created from two air masses of different masses.
Air masses bend at boundaries to form?
Fronts
How does unequal heating of earth affect the movement of air masses?
Unequal heating cause air masses to form fronts. Fronts are masses that contain air that is all the same temperature and at the same altitude.
What form along fronts?
Along fronts low pressure systems form. Depending on what type of front it is, the air pressure will drastically increase or decrease. Because the front is the edge of an incoming air mass, precipitation occurs often ahead of the front. Fronts of incoming air masses are subject to prevailing winds, and are influenced in direction. Often, clouds form along fronts, which is why when a front has passed in there has been rain, or snow, or any other form of precipitation.
How do front form?
When one air mass bump into one another, the air masses usually doe not mix because the properties of the air masses are different. A front forms between the two air masses. Stormy weather often occurs along fronts.
Where do violent storms generally form along?
cold fronts
What are common fronts in North America?
Colliding air masses in North America can form 4 types of fronts: cold fronts, warm fronts, stationary fronts, and occluded fronts.
What happens when air masses meet fronts?
when two air masses meets at fronts,cyclonic rain occurs.
Are cold air masses lighter the warm air masses or the same?
cold fronts are heavier than warm fronts
Air masses are known as?
fronts
How are fronts and air masses related?
They are both boundaries that occur most often between a front and an air mass.
