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How do we characterize an air mass that forms over land?

• Dry
• Wet
• Cold
• Warm

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How do we characterize an air mass that forms near the poles?

• Dry
• Wet
• Warm
• Cold

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How do we characterize an air mass that forms over the ocean?

• Dry
• Wet
• Cold
• Warm

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What types of air masses form over oceans?

• Maritime
• Continental
• Polar
• Tropical

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What types of air masses form over land?

• Maritime
• Continental
• Polar
• Tropical

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Cold dense air slides underneath warm air. The warm air is forced up, cools, and condenses.

• Cold Front

• Warm Front

• Stationary Front

• Occluded Front

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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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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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When two air masses meet, what happens?

• The weather changes and precipitation usually occurs.
• wind
• water
• volcano

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Which system results in drier, fairer weather?

• high pressure
• low pressure
• hurricane
• weather system

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