Air Masses & Fronts

This is the symbol for which type of front?

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

What characteristics are used to classify air masses?

• temperature and humidity
• pressure and temperature
• latitude and longitude
• wind speed and location 

What does symbol # 1 mean?

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

What kind of precipitation falls during a cold front?

• thunderstorms or severe weather

• precipitation lasting several days

• strong wind and heavy precipitation

• steady rain

What kind of precipitation falls during a warm front?

• long lasting rain

• thunderstorms and severe weather

• heavy precipitation

• drizzly rain

What kind of front is this?

• warm

• cold

• occluded

• stationary

What kind of front is: A warm air mass gets caught between 2 cold air masses, warm air rises up between the 2

• warm front

• occluded front

• warm front

• cold front

What does symbol # 3 mean?

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

When air is heavy and sinks what kind of pressure system is it?

• low pressure system

• high pressure system

Without the Greenhouse Effect the Earth would be

• warm 
• cold
• dead