Weather #2

 A fast moving cold air mass overtakes a warm air mass is called a _________________

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

A warm air mass is caught between two cooler air masses is called a ________________________.

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

A huge body of air that has similar temperature and humidity at any given height is called an __________________________.

• front
• jet stream
• air mass
• cyclone

Which of the following air masses would be characterized as warm and dry?

• Maritime tropical
• Continental tropical
• Maritime polar
• Continental polar

What is a front?

• The boundary where two like air masses meet.
• The boundary where two unlike air masses meet

Which front would you possibly see heavy rain or snow fall?

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

In the winter, Continental polar air masses bring what type of air to North America?

• dry and warm
• humid and cold
• dry and cold
• humid and warm

An unequal heating of the surface of Earth by the sun causes areas of high and low pressure to form. What do the arrows in the diagram most likely represent?

• wind
• precipitation
• clouds
• runoff

The arrows in the diagram represent air movement during a thunderstorm.  The air circulates in this pattern because of the

• percentage of relative humidity.
• volume of precipitation.
• static electricity discharge.
• atmospheric heat convection.

The drawing below shows a sea breeze. When is this type of wind pattern most likely to occur?

• during the day when the land heats faster than the surface of the sea
• during the night when the surface of the sea cools faster than the land
• during the day when the sea is as warm as the land
• during the night when the air above land is warmer than the air above the sea