________ clouds are thin and wispy, and are found at high elevations. These clouds bring fair/pleasant weather.
What are cirrus clouds?
100
A/an _____ is a large body of air that has the same properties as the Earth’s surface over which it develops and has the same density and moisture content.
A. Cloud
B. Front
C. Air Mass
D. Hurricane
What is C? An air mass.
100
The boundary between cold and warm air masses:
A. Storm
B. Climate
C. Front
D. Flood
What is C? A front.
100
Wind blowing from the ocean to the land is called _______
A. Land breeze
B. Sea breeze
What is B? Sea breeze
100
Draw a cumulus cloud, cirrus cloud, and stratus cloud.
______ clouds are white and fluffy, and resemble cotton. They bring fair weather.
What are cumulus clouds?
200
What type of weather would a continental tropical air mass bring?
A. Dry and cold
B. Wet and cold
C. Wet and warm
D. Dry and warm
What is D?
200
When a warm air mass passes over a cold air mass, what type of front is this called?
A. Cold
B. Warm
C. Occluded
D. Stationary
What is B? Warm front.
200
True or False.
On a hot day, you will have a stronger sea breeze because of the differences between land and water temperatures.
What is true?
200
Which type of weather is associated with low pressure?
A. Cloudy with precipitation
B. Sunny and windy
C. Clear and dry
D. Sunny and cold
What is A? Cloudy with precipitation.
300
______ clouds are low, gray, and form in layers, resembling a blanket in the sky. They bring drizzling rain.
What are stratus clouds?
300
An air mass that forms over the ocean near the equator would be:
A. Maritime polar
B. Maritime tropical
C. Continental tropical
D. Continental polar
What is B?
300
When warm air and cool air meet, and neither moves, what type of front is this called?
A. Cold
B. Occluded
C. Stationary
D. Warm
What is C? Stationary front.
300
When air moves from the land toward the water, it is called a:
A. Land breeze
B. Sea breeze
What is A? Land breeze
300
Which would bring clear, cool weather?
A. Low pressure
B. High pressure
C. Zero pressure
D. Stable air pressure
What is B? High pressure.
400
________ clouds are tall and dark. They are thunderstorm clouds, and can bring heavy rain, snow, hail, lightning, & even tornadoes.
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
400
Which of the following is a dry, cold air mass?
A. Continental tropical
B. Maritime tropical
C. Continental polar
D. Maritime polar
What is C?
400
When cool air pushes warm air out, the boundary formed is what type of front?
A. Stationary
B. Cold
C. Occluded
D. Warm
What is B? Cold front.
400
Which cools faster, water or land? Give an example.
What is land? Example: sand cooling off faster when sun sets than ocean water.
400
Which most affects the temperature of an area?
A. Humidity
B. Precipitation
C. Latitude
What is C? Latitude.
500
Describe what fog is. What kind of cloud is fog considered?
What is a cloud low to the ground-hard to see through, it is a stratus cloud.
500
What type of weather would a maritime polar air mass bring?
A. Wet and cold
B. Wet and warm
C. Dry and cold
D. Dry and warm
What is A?
500
When warm air is caught between a cold air mass & a cool air mass, what is this called?
A. Warm front
B. Cold front
C. Stationary front
D. Occluded front
What is D? Occluded front
500
True or False?
1. Land warms up faster than water.
2. Air above land is colder than air above water.
3. Warm air (low pressure) rises during the day.
What is True, False, True
500
Draw the symbols for a warm front and a cold front.
Warm front-line with red half circles
Cold front- line with blue triangles