Air Mass and Weather Fronts Vocab

Air mass

• A large body of air with roughly the same temperature and humidity.

• A measurment of air.

• The weight of air.

• I don't know I'll just get it wrong.

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Humidity

• how many animals there are

• How hot a place is.

• A measure of how much water vapor is in the air.

• I don't know

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Prevailing winds

• Winds that blow infinitly.

• Winds that blow mostly in one direction, moving air masses.

• Winds that flow through objects.

• I don't know I'll get it wrong

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Convection Cell

• The circulation of air due to heating and cooling of molecules.

• A prison cell for bad guys.

• A trial of air.

• I don't know

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Weather Front

• The block in weather.

• I don't know.

• The front of the weather.

• The boundary between two air masses.

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Cold Front

• A wall of cold/freeze.

• The front of the cold weather.

• A type of weather front where cold air masses overtake warm air masses.

• I don't know

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Warm Front

• The cause of warmth.

• A type of weather front where warm air masses overtake cold air masses.

• The front of warmth.

• I don't know.

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Stationary Front

• A type of weather front where a cold air mass and a warm air mass meet, but neither pushes the other out of the way.

• Where weather stays still.

• A type of weather front where warm air masses overtake cold air masses.

• I don't know

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Occluded Front

• The circulation of air due to heating and cooling of molecules.

• A type of weather front where an air mass gets separated from the ground by a fast-moving cold air mass, resulting in heavy rain.

• A type of weather front where cold air masses overtake warm air masses.

• I don't know

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