Air masses
Fronts
Clouds
100
What is an air mass?
What is a huge body of air that has similar temperatures, humidity and air pressure through out.
100
What is a front?
What is the boundary where unlike air masses meet but do not mix
100
What is a cloud?
What is Water vapor that has condensed into millions of tiny droplets or ice crystals
200
What is an air mass that is warm and wet?
What is Maritime Tropical
200
What front is cold? Hint: Dense, fast moving air runs into warm less dense air and goes underneath it.
What is Cold Front
200
What causes weather?
What is clouds
300
What is an air mass that is cold and wet?
What is Maritime Polar
300
What front is warm? Hint: less dense, fast moving air runs into more dense cold air and slides over the top of it.
What is Warm Front
300
What types of clouds are thin and wispy?
What is Cirrus cloud
400
What is an air mass that is warm and dry?
What is Continental Tropical
400
What is a cold and warm air mass? Hint: They meet but they cannot move past each other
What is Stationary Front
400
What clouds are puffy and look like cotton balls floating in the air?
What is the Cumulus
500
What is an air mass that is cold and dry?
What is Continental Polar
500
What is a warm air mass that gets caught between two cold air masses and then gets pushed up?
What is Occluded Front
500
What cloud has little patterned pouches hanging from them.
What is Mammatus
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