Weather Vocabulary Quiz

The atmospheric conditions, along with short-term changes, of a certain place at a certain time

• maritime polar

• arctic air mass

• warm front

• weather

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the pressure that a column of air exerts on the air or surface below it

• maritime equatorial

• continental arctic

• warm front

• air pressure

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large body of air in the lower atmosphere with specific temperature and moisture characteristics

• polar air mass

• air pressure

• air mass

• maritime air mass

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when air spends days to weeks hovering over the same part of the earth

• air mass formation

• arctic air mass

• stationary front

• continental air mass

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

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an air mass that forms over land; it is normally relatively dry

• weather

• continental air mass

• continental arctic

• air mass formation

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form over water, moisture

• continental polar

• air mass

• cold front

• maritime air mass

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having a large amount of water or moisture in the air

• maritime air mass

• air mass formation

• humid

• high pressure system

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A warm air mass that forms in the tropics and has low air pressure

• cold front

• polar air mass

• continental air mass

• tropical air mass

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

air mass that forms over cold regions

• polar air mass

• maritime equatorial

• continental polar

• high pressure system

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

A bitterly cold air mass that forms over the frozen Arctic Ocean.

• continental arctic

• continental tropical

• continental polar

• arctic air mass

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