Air Mass
Types of Air Mass
Weather Fronts
High and Low Pressure
Misc.
100
What is an air mass
What is a large body of air that extends for miles and miles
100
What type of air forms wet?
What is Maritime
100

what front does cold air move into warm air?

What is a cold front

100
What type of weather does high pressure cause?
What is sunny fair weather
100

A person that studies weather.

What is a meteorologist?

200
Does the air that originates over Canada cold or hot
What is cold
200
What type of air forms on land
What is Continental
200
What front move hot air in and cold air out
What is a warm front
200
what type of weather does low pressure create
What is rainy bad weather
200

Low Pressure severe weather system that forms in the ocean.

What is a hurricane?

300
Does the air mass over Florida hot or cold
What is hot
300
What type of air is warm
What is tropical
300
What type of front causes cold air and warm air to not move
What is a stationary front
300

At a high Pressure system is the air Rising or sinking

What is sinking

300

A violent rotating column of air extending from a thunderstorm to the ground is ...? 

What is a Tornado

400
Where does an air mass originate?
What is over land and water
400
what type of air is cold
What is polar
400
what type of front has cold, warm, and cool air meet?
What is an occluded front
400

At a low pressure system is the air rising or sinking? 

What is Rising?

400

Weather generally moved across the United States from _____ to  ______. 

What is West to East? 

500

What happens when two air masses meet?

What is bad weather

500
what type of air mass is warm and moist
What is maritime tropical
500
What is a weather front?
What is a boundary between two air masses
500

What is invisible force is created when high pressure moves away towards the low pressure system? 

What is wind? 

500

3 conditions needed for a Thunderstorm are,

______ High altitude air

______ Humidity 

______ Low Altitude Air

What is Cold (High altitude air), High (humidity) and Warm (low altitude air).  

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