Air Masses and Fronts Exit Ticket

Air Masses and Weather

Georgia Standard S6E4(d): Construct an explanation of the relationship between air pressure, weather fronts, and air masses and meteorological events such as tornadoes and thunderstorms.

Objectives

• What are the major types of air masses in North America, and how do they move?

• How does the air mass affect the weather?

Open Ended

What is an air mass? (Explain in your own words.)

An air mass is a huge body of air that has similar temperature, humidity, and air pressure at any given height

Air masses are named from where they form and the amount of humidity.

How does the temperature of the air mass affect the weather?

Hint: Look at the diagram and think about where the main air masses come from.

Open Ended

Explain how the type of air mass can affect the weather. (Be sure to use proper sentence structure, capitalization, and punctuation. RACE acronym)