Weather Review #2

What type of front forms when a warm air mass is caught between two cooler air masses?

• Warm front

• Stationary front

• Cold front

• Occluded front

What type of front forms when a cold air mass overtakes a warm air mass and pushes it upward?

• Hot front

• Dry front

• Stationary front

• Cold front

What type of front forms when a cold air mass and a warm air mass meet, but neither can move the other?

• occluded front

• stationary front

• cold front

• warm front

What type of front forms when a warm air mass overtakes a cold air mass and pushes it upward?

• Stationary front

• Cold front

• Occluded front

• Warm front

What type of air mass forms over land and is dry?

• Polar air mass

• Continental air mass

• Maritime air mass

• Tropical air mass

What type of air mass forms over water and is moist?

• Polar air mass

• Maritime air mass

• Tropical air mass

• Continental air mass

What is the process by which water evaporates from the Earth's surface, rises into the atmosphere, cools, condenses, and falls back to the surface as precipitation?

• Water cycle

• Rainbow cycle

• Cloud cycle

• Sunshine cycle

What is the term for the process by which water vapor changes into liquid water?

• Condensation

• Precipitation

• Evaporation

• Sublimation

What is the term for the process by which liquid water changes into water vapor?

• condensation

• sublimation

• precipitation

• evaporation

After a cold front passes through, what type of weather will there be?   

• Rainy or stormy, and cloudy
• Clear, dry, and sunny