Weather Patterns

Fronts and Weather patterns

A full measure of how to measure

Multiple Choice

This is a test question. Whi is the best planet to live on?

• Venus

• Mars

• Neptune

• Jupiter

​Reviewing Cloud shapes

​Whispy and very high up

Fluffy and flat on the bottom.

Long low sheets of cloud cover

Open Ended

What kind of cloud is this?

How can you tell?

(please answer both parts of the Question)

​Air masses

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​Air masses

​Cold - Dry (Continental Polar)

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​Cold - Wet --------------------

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​Warm - Dry -------------------

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​Warm - Wet (Maritime Tropical)

Multiple Choice

If Cold/Dry is Continental Polar

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and ​Warm/Wet is Maritime Tropical

What is the name of an air mass that is Cold and Wet?

• Continental Tropical

• Maritime Tropical

• Continental Polar

• Maritime Polar

​Air masses

​Cold - Dry (Continental Polar)

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​Cold - Wet (Maritime Polar)

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​Warm - Dry (Continental Tropical)

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​Warm - Wet (Maritime Tropical)

​High and low pressure

​Describe what is happening? What do you think the weather is like?

Open Ended

What would the weather be like in a high pressure environment?

​High and low pressure

​High = dry with clear skys

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​Low = Clouds and precipitation.

Multiple Choice

High pressure will usually bring what kind of weather?

• Clear skies

• Cloudy

• High humidity

Multiple Choice

_______ pressure air masses usually bring cloudy, rainy weather.

• High

• Low

Multiple Choice

What type of front is shown?

• Warm Front

• Cold Front

​Cold Fronts

​Cold air pushes underneath warm air. Clouds collect and make heavy thunderstorms and precipitation.

Multiple Choice

This is a Warm front. Do you expect the weather to be more intense or less intense?

• More

• Less

​Warm Fronts

​CLoud cover moves over the cold front. Clouds spread out

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​Weather lasts longer but is more intense.

Multiple Choice

What type of front moves quickly and can produce severe thunderstorms?

• Stationary
• Warm
• Cold
• Occluded

Multiple Choice

When a warm air mass gently slides on top of a cold air mass, and you have drizzly rain and then warmer weather, what type of front is it?

• warm front
• cold front
• occluded front
• stationary front

Multiple Choice

It has been overcast and lightly raining for DAYS. On the news you hear that tomorrow the rain is supposed to stop and temperatures will be a little warmer. What type of front are we experiencing?

• warm front

• cold front