Air Masses and Fronts

What does this symbol stand for?

• Warm Front
• Cold Front
• Stationary Front
• Occluded Front

An air mass is

• where two fronts come together
• warm air rising over cold air
• a huge body of air with the same temperature, humidity, and air pressure
• forms over the ocean

The seasons are caused by the tilt of the Earth’s axis as Earth travels around the sun.

• False
• True

A continental tropical air mass have the characteristics of:

• cold and dry
• cold and wet
• warm and dry
• warm and wet

A front is:

• where the ocean meets the land
• where unlike air masses meet
• a swirling center of low pressure
• violent disturbance in the atmosphere

What does this symbol stand for?

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

Climate is the condition of the Earth's atmosphere at a particular time and place.

• True
• False

Factors that influence temperature are:

• air pressure, water vapor, altitude, and climate
• altitude, longitude, ocean currents and distance from large bodies of water
• latitude, altitude, distance from large bodies of water, and ocean currents
• weather, precipitation, condensation, and evaporation

In the continental US, air masses are commonly moved by

• thunderstorms
• hurricanes
• tornadoes
• prevailing westerlies and jet streams

What type of front is this?

• warm front
• low front
• stationary front
• cold front