Standard 2.5.2: Review of the standard

A cold, dry air mass would be called

• continental tropic

• continental polar

• maritime polar

• continental maritime

When a warm air mass and a cold air mass meet, but they push at each other and neither one can move, it is called a/an

• warm front

• cold front

• occluded front

• stationary front

The boundary between two air masses is called a/an

• flood

• front

• climate

• storm

When a fast moving cold air mass moves into a slower moving warm air mass, we may experience severe storms and we will have cooler weather. What type of front is this?

• warm front

• cold front

• occluded front

• stationary front

When a warm air mass slides on top of a cold air mass, and you have drizzly rain and then warmer weather, what type of front is it?

• warm front

• cold front

• occluded front

• stationary front

A/an ________ is a large body of air that has the same properties as the Earth's surface over which it develops.

• front

• air mass

• cloud

• tornado

What type of weather would a continental tropical air mass bring?

• dry and cold weather

• wet and cold weather

• dry and warm weather

• wet and warm weather

An air mass that formed over the ocean near the equator would probably be

• maritime polar

• maritime tropical

• continental polar

• continental tropical

A wet, cold air mass would be

• maritime tropical

• maritime polar

• continental tropical

• continental polar

Where would you find a tropical maritime air mass?

• Over the ocean, near the equator

• over the ocean, near the poles

• over the continent, near the equator

• over a continent, near the poles