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What happens when warm and cold currents meet?

Areas where warm and cold currents meet tend to have regular foggy conditions, as the overlying warm and cold air come in contact with each other.they also tend to have high biological productivity, because plankton growth is encourage by the mixing of warm and cold currents.Some of the world's most productive fishing grounds are located where warm and cold currents converge.For example, where Labrador current (cold) and Gulf stream (warm) meet, a dense fog is there and it is one of the richest fishing grounds of the world.


What type of front might lower temperatures be expected?

A cold front typically lowers temperatures as it moves in. Cold air is denser than warm air, so as the cold front displaces the warm air, temperatures tend to drop.


What is a warm air mass advancing under a cold air mass called?

A warm air mass advancing under a cold air mass is called an occluded front. This occurs when a fast-moving cold front catches up to a slow-moving warm front, lifting the warm air off the ground. The mixing of air masses can lead to cloud formation and precipitation.


Do warm fronts or cold fronts travel at the same speed?

Cold fronts generally travel faster than warm fronts. Cold air is denser and more forceful, allowing cold fronts to advance quicker than warm fronts which are characterized by more gradual temperature differences.


What is the name of the front when cold air moves under warm moist air?

The front you are referring to is called a cold front. Cold air is denser than warm air, so when a mass of cold air moves underneath warm, moist air, it lifts the warm air rapidly, leading to the formation of clouds and potentially precipitation.

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How is an ocean current considered to be warm or cold?

Warm or cold defines the temperature of the water. In general warm currents flow north and cold currents flow south. That makes sense. Also warm currents flow on the surface and cold currents flow deep since cold water is denser than warm water.


What type of air tends to be more dense and flow under warm air?

...cold air...


Do earthworms tend to move toward a warm area or cold area?

not warm, cold.


Difference between cold and warm currents?

Warm currents are warm whereas cold currents are cold. Warm currents flow from the equatorial regions towards the polar regions whereas cold currents flow from the polar regions to the equatorial regions. By- Avyukt Sharma


Does warm currents tend to make cold places warmer?

No?


How do warm and cold currents move?

The cold and warm water mixes and it forms a gulf stream and it starts to flow.


Are silkworms warm or cold blooded?

Yes silkworms are cold blooded and tend not to do alot in the day so the do not need warm blood


Are the ocean currents in the pacific warm or cold?

Both: Tidal currents that flow from the tropics will be warm, and if they flow from the poles will be cool.


Why are warm currents warm and cold currents cold?

there are some warm currents as they flow along the earths surface while there some cold currents as they travel below the earths surface


Does heat flow from a source that is warm to a source that is cold?

Heat does, indeed, go from a warm source to a cold place. That is what heat always does.


Do earthworms tend to move toward a warm area or a cold area?

both


Is stick insect a cold blooded or warm blooded?

All insects are cold blooded, as are fish and reptiles. Birds and mammals are the ones that tend to be warm blooded.No.