Weather Fronts

What gas makes up 78% of the atmosphere?

• Oxygen

• Nitrogen

• Ozone

• Carbon Dioxide

When heat is transferred via warm matter rising and cold matter sinking in a continuous cycle, this is called

• conduction

• insolation

• convection

• radiation

When Wynonna the cat gets warmed up by lying in her heated cat bed, this transfer of heat is called

• conduction

• convection

• radiation

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

If an air mass is sinking, it must be

• cold and less dense

• cold and more dense

• warm and more dense

• warm and less dense

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

If an air mass is rising, it must be

• cold and less dense
• cold and more dense
• warm and more dense
• warm and less dense

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Air masses are different in many ways. Which of these is NOT different?

• moisture contents

• ratio of oxygen/nitrogen

• density

• temperature

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

If I blew up a balloon in a 72°F classroom and then took it outside where it is 100°F, what would happen to the volume of air in the balloon?

• It would shrink.

• It wouldn't change size.

• It would expand.

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

A front is

• where warm air is cooling at earth's surface

• a line where hot and cold air are separating

• a line where two different air masses meet

• where cold air is rising and forming rain clouds

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Which type of front is pictured?

• Cold front
• Warm front
• Occluded front
• Stationary front

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

When a cold front or a warm front stays in place for several days without invading another front, it becomes a/n ______.

• stationary front

• cold front

• occluded front

• warm front

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