Air Masses and Fronts

this a large volume of air with a characteristic temperature and humidity

• cloud

• isobar

• millibar

• air mass

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

How do we name air masses?

• Water and temperature

• Air pressure

• Humidity and temperature

• Cold and warm

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

What types of air masses form over oceans?

• Maritime

• Continental

• Polar

• Tropical

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

What's the humidity and temperature of a continental tropical air mass?

• Wet and cold

• Dry and warm

• Wet and warm

• Dry and cold

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

What's the humidity and temperature of a maritime tropical air mass?

• Wet and cold

• Dry and warm

• Wet and warm

• Dry and cold

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

_____________ air is more dense and tends to sink

• cold

• warm

• moist

• dry

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Body of dry air that is low in humidity because it formed over a LAND area.

• Maritime air mass

• Polar air mass

• Continental air mass

• Tropical air mass

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

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

• Continental

• Maritime

• Tropical

• Polar

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

A front where a warm air mass is caught between two colder air masses and brings cool temperatures and large amounts of rain and snow.

• Stationary front

• Cold front

• Warm front

• Occluded front

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

A huge horizontal body (river) of air that has similar temperature, humidity, and air pressure at any given height.

• Air lake

• Air mass

• Air pocket

• Air river

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6