Air Masses
Fronts
Lines on a Map
Forecasts
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What are the two characteristics of air masses we use to name them?
What are temperature and humidity?
100
This forms when two or more large air masses meet and bring changes in the weather.
What are weather fronts?
100
What do the capital letters H and L stands for on a weather map.
What is high pressure and low pressure?
100
What is the name given to a scientist that studies weather?
What is a meteorologist?
200
What is an air mass that is dry and forms over land?
What is a continental air mass?
200
A type of front made of cold, dense air. Rain, snow, thunderstorms and sometimes tornadoes are caused by this front. Usually, the precipitation does not last very long.
What is a cold front?
200
What is marked on weather maps as a blue line with triangles on it.
What is a cold front?
200
What type of breeze is this?
What is a sea breeze?
300
What is an air mass that forms over the polar regions and is cold?
What is a polar air mass?
300
The front that forms when two air masses meet and neither one takes over. Often causes many cloudy days to occur in a row.
What is a stationary front?
300
What is marked on a weather map as a red line with half circles on it.
What is a warm front?
300
This term is the long-term weather of an area and also cannot be predicted using a forecast.
What is climate?
400
What is an air mass that forms over the tropics and is warm?
What is a tropical air mass?
400
The type of front formed when a large mass of warm air takes over the cooler air mass. Usually it produces rain, fog, or snow that is light but steady.
What is a warm front?
400
What is marked on a weather map as a blue line with blue triangles on one side and red half circles on the other side.
What is a stationary front?
400
What is the layer of the atmosphere where our ozone layer is located?
What is the stratosphere?
500
What is an air mass that is wet and forms over water?
What is a maritime air mass?
500
The type of front that develops when two cool air masses merge, forcing the warm air to rise and become trapped. It usually brings wind and precipitation.
What is an occluded front?
500
What is marked on the weather map as a purple line with half circles and triangles on the same side.
What is an occluded front?
500
Weather happens in this layer of the atmosphere.
What is the troposphere?