Air Masses and Fronts

A large body of air that has similar temperature, humidity, and air pressure

• Clouds

• Equator

• Air mass

• Front

Where do tropical air masses form?

• near the poles

• near the equator

• over the tundra

• in tornadoes

Characteristics of an air mass depend on...

• storms and altitude

• temperature and altitude

• height and weight

• temperature and moisture level

Polar air masses form...

• near the poles

• near the equator

• near the clouds

• near the tropics

Maritime air masses form...

• over land

• over a body of water

• only over cities

• only over mountains

Continental air masses form...

• only near the equator

• in mountains

• over the ocean

• over land

What type of air mass brings cool, humid air?

• maritime polar

• continental polar

• continental tropical

• maritime tropical

What type of air mass brings cool, dry air?

• continental tropical

• maritime tropical

• maritime polar

• continental polar

What type of air mass brings warm, dry air?

• continental tropical

• continental polar

• maritime tropical

• maritime polar

the boundary where two air masses meet

• desert

• air mass

• front

• cloud