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100

A body of air with the same humidity and moisture throughout.

What is an air mass?

100

A boundary between two air masses (usually bring changes in the weather).

What are fronts?

100
Marked on weather maps as a blue line with triangles on it.
What is a cold front?
100

This is what happens to air that is warmed.

What is rises?

100

Which of the following is not a type of weather front?

-Bilateral

-Warm

-Cold

-Occluded

Bilateral

200

An air mass that is cold and forms over land.

What is a continental polar air mass?

200
A type of front made of cold, dense air. Rain, snow, thurnderstorms and sometimes tornadoes are caused by this front. Usually, the precipitation does not last very long.
What is a cold front?
200
Marked on a weather map as a red line with half circles on it.
What is a warm front?
200
Energy travels to Earth in the form of this.

What is radiation?

200

Which of the following is not a global wind belt?

-Trade Winds

-Westerlies

-Easterlies

-Fronts

Fronts

300

An air mass that is warm and forms over land.

What is Continental Tropical?

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
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?
300

Pressure differences are the primary cause of this.

What is wind?

300
This is the kind of weather that stationary fronts bring.

What is consistently rainy weather?

400

An air mass that forms over the ocean and is warm.

What is a maritime tropical air mass?

400

The type of front formed when a large mass of warm air takes over the cooler air mass. Usually produce rain, fog, or snow that is light, but long-lasting.

What is a warm front?

400
Marked on the weather map as a purple line with half circles and triangles on the same side.
What is an occluded front?
400

Over which location would you find the most moisture?

-Hawaii

-Arizona

-Antarctica

-Rocky Mountains

Hawaii

400

Which of the following is not a type of air mass?

-Maritime Continental

-Maritime Polar

-Continental Polar

-Continental Tropical

Maritime Continental
500

An air mass that is cold and forms over the ocean.

What is Maritime Polar?

500

All fronts bring this.

What is precipitation (rain)?

500

The reason that wind does not travel in a straight line on Earth is due to this effect.

What is the Coriolis Effect?

500

How would you compare the heating and cooling of land versus water?

Water heats slower and cools slower than land.

500

This is the kind of weather that results from a dropping air pressure.

What is stormy weather?