Air Masses and Fronts

A cold, dry air mass would be called - 

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

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

The boundary between two air masses is called a/an - 

• flood
• front
• climate
• storm

When a fast moving cold air mass moves into a slower moving warm air mass, we may experience severe storms and we will have cooler weather. What type of front is this?

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

This is the symbol for which type of front?

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

What type of storm front is this? 

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

What characteristics are used to classify air masses?

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

Warm air mass overtakes cold air mass and rises above. 

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

Dry cool air mass

• Continental tropical 
• Continental polar
• Maritime tropical
• Maritime polar

Dry warm air mass

• Continental tropical
• Continental polar
• Maritime tropical
• Maritime polar