Air Masses, Fronts and storms

What is a front?

• A place where air masses meet
• the front part of a storm
• An area of very high wind
• an area that has fair weather

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rapidly moving cold air  mass runs into a warm air mass the cold air slides under the warm air. This is called a  .....

• cold front
• warm front
• stationary front

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This is the symbol for which type of front?

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

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Where would you find a tropical maritime air mass?

• over the ocean, near the equator
• over the ocean, near the poles
• over a continent, near the equator
• over a continent, near the poles

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A cold, dry air mass would be called - 

• continental tropic
• continental polar
• maritime polar
• continental maritime

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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

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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 

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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

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A wet, cold air mass would be - 

• maritime tropical 
• maritime polar
• continental tropical 
• continental polar

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Which abbreviation of an air mass can be identified as dry and cold?

• cP
• mP
• cT
• mT

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