Winds, pressure systems, & air masses

High pressure systems are usually associated with what type of weather?

• Clouds and precipitation

• Fair weather and sunny

• Severe Thunderstorms

• Jet Streams

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Low pressure systems are associated with what type of weather?

• Clouds & precipitation

• Fair weather & sunny

• Jet Streams

• Dry Air

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

A weather system brought gentle rain and an increase in air temperature. Which type of front could have caused this?

• Warm Front

• Cold Front

• Occluded Front

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Air masses develop which two characteristics, based on where they form?

• temperature & altitude

• wind speed & direction

• stationary & occluded

• temperature and humidity

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

What type of air mass will form over the Atlantic ocean near the equator?

• Dry and warm

• Dry and Cold

• Humid and Warm

• Humid and Cold

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Which type of front is displayed?

• Cold
• Warm
• Stationary
• Occluded

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Which type of front is displayed?

• Cold
• Warm
• Stationary
• Occluded

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

All the following would bring precipitation except?

• Low pressure

• cold front

• High pressure

• Warm front

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Which of the following forms when neither a colder air mass nor a warmer air mass moves at a frontal boundary (may produce several days of rain)?

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

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

wind

• warm, less dense air rises

• cool, dense air sinks

• large circular patterns of moving air

• movement of air cause by differences in air pressure

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6