Weather Fronts
Weather Instruments/Severe Weather
Fronts Symbols
100
The boundary where a cold air mass and a warm air mass meet is called a/an.....
What is a front?
100
This is a weather instrument used to measure air temperature.
What is a thermometer?
100
This is the symbol for a warm front:
What is choice 2?
200
This is when a warm air mass slowly moves over a cold, denser air mass, gradually replacing it. Forms drizzly rain followed by clear and sunny weather.
What is a warm front?
200
What is the most dangerous weather event produced by a hurricane?
What is a storm surge?
200
This is the symbol for a cold front:
What is choice 1?
300
This is when a cold air mass pushes up a less-dense warm air mass, causing severe weather like thunderstorms, heavy rain, and snow.
What is a cold front?
300
This is a weather instrument used to measure air pressure.
What is a barometer?
300
This is the symbol for a stationary front:
What is choice 4?
400
This is when a cold air mass meets a warm air mass and neither has enough force to move the other. Brings many days of cloudy, wet weather.
What is a stationary front?
400
Which instrument is used to measure wind speed?
What is an anemometer?
400
This is the symbol for an occluded front.
What is choice 3?
500
This is when a warm air mass is trapped between two colder air masses. The coldest air mass pushes out the warm and less dense one and causes large amounts of snow or rain and cold temperatures.
What is an occluded front?
500
What speed do winds have to reach to be classified as a hurricane?
What is 74 mph
500
What does the blue capital H and red capital L indicate on a weather map?
What is a High Pressure System and a Low Pressure System?