Air Masses/Fronts

How do we name air masses?

• Water and temperature
• Air pressure
• Humidity and temperature
• Cold and warm

What's the humidity and temperature of a continental tropical air mass?

• Wet and cold
• Dry and warm
• Wet and warm
• Dry and cold

Which type of air would you find at air mass A?

• cold, dry
• warm, humid
• warm, dry
• cold, humid

What type of storm front if this?

• Warm Front
• Cold Front
• Stationary Front
• Occluded Front

What type of storm front is this?

• Warm Front
• Cold Front
• Occluded Front
• Stationary Front

A front is

• where warm air is cooling at earth's surface

• a line where hot and cold air are separating

• a line where two different air masses meet

• where cold air is rising and forming rain clouds

In a high pressure systems

• there are few clouds because the air in moving downward

• there are many clouds because the air is very humid

• there are few clouds because the air is moving outward

• there are many clouds because the air is moving upward

Which most likely produces clear, cool weather?

• zero air pressure
• stable air pressure
• a low pressure system
• a high pressure system

lightning and thunder may occur

• cold front
• warm front

Yesterday we had tornadoes and thunderstorms, what front was responsible for that?

• Warm
• Stationary
• Cold
• Occluded