Weather Quiz

What is an air mass?

• A small body of air with uniform characteristics
• A large body of water with varying temperature
• A group of birds flying together
• A large body of air with relatively uniform temperature, humidity, and pressure characteristics.

How do jet streams affect air masses?

• Jet streams can push and steer air masses, affecting their movement, speed, and direction.
• Jet streams create turbulence in air masses
• Jet streams cause air masses to disappear
• Jet streams have no impact on air masses

Where does a continental polar air mass form?

• Over warm, humid ocean areas in the high latitudes of the Southern Hemisphere.
• Over cold, ocean areas in the high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere.

• Over cold, dry land areas in the high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere.
• Over warm, humid land areas in the low latitudes of the Southern Hemisphere.

What temperature and humidity does a continental tropical air mass have?

• High temperature and low humidity
• Low temperature and low humidity
• High temperature and high humidity
• Low temperature and high humidity

Where does a maritime polar air mass form?

• Over the warm waters of the equator
• Over the icy lands of Antarctica
• Over the humid rainforests of the Amazon
• Over the cold waters of the North Atlantic and North Pacific oceans.

What temperature and humidity does a continental polar air mass have?

• Cold temperature and low humidity

• Warm temperature and high humidity

• Hot temperature and low humidity

• Freezing temperature and high humidity

What temperature and humidity does a maritime tropical air mass have?

• Hot temperature and low humidity
• Warm temperature and high humidity
• Freezing temperature and high humidity

• Cold temperature and low humidity

What does continental mean?

• land

• water

• hot

• cold

What does maritime mean?

• land

• water

• hot

• cold

What type of air mass forms at letter G?

• Continental Polar

• Maritime Polar

• Continental Tropical

• Maritime Tropical