Weather and Air Masses

Which type of air mass is wet and cold?

• Maritime Polar

• Tropical Maritime

• Polar continental

• continental tropical

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Which type of air mass is warm and wet?

• Maritime Polar

• Tropical Maritime

• Polar continental

• continental tropical

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Which type of air mass is warm and dry?

• Maritime Polar

• Tropical Maritime

• Polar continental

• continental tropical

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

How are Thunderstorms started?

• Updrafts and downdrafts cause the particles in the cloud to rub against each other and crash into each other cause negative and positively charged particles in the cloud causing thunder.

• Updrafts cause the cloud to move which charges up the particles.

• sidedrafts cause clouds to hit each other and the particles in the clouds rub against each other and crash into each other cause negative and positively charged particles in the cloud causing thunder.

• It just happens.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Which best describes an air mass?

• A large body of air that has no water vapor.

• A large body of air that has the same temperature but different amounts of water vapor.

• A large body of air that has the same amount of water vapor but different temperatures.

• A large body of air that has the same amount of water vapor and temperature.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

When air masses meet, what is formed?

• A snow storm.

• A rain storm

• A front.

• A back.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

How is a cold front created?

• A warm air mass bumps into cold a air mass and does not move.

• A warm air mass quickly moves over a cold air mass.

• A warm air mass quickly moves under a cold air mass.

• Cold fronts never form.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

What type of weather will you see along a cold front?

• Thunderstorms

• Sunny skies

• Gentle rain

• No weather

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

When cold air and warm air meet what happens?

• They go through each other.

• The warm air slowly rises and glides above the cold air.

• The cold air rises and glides above the warm air

• The cold air moves towards colder and denser air.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Blizzards form in which type of air mass?

• Continental polar

• Continental tropical

• Maritime polar

• Maritime tropical

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6