Weather Fronts

A front is

• where warm air is cooling at earth's surface
• a line where hot and cold air are separating
• a line where two different air masses meet
• where cold air is rising and forming rain clouds

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Which type of front is pictured?

• Cold front
• Warm front
• Occluded front
• Stationary front

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What symbol is this?

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

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Which type of front is associated with purple humps and triangles facing the same direction?

• Cold
• Warm
• Stationary
• Occluded

This is the symbol for which type of front?

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

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When a cold front or a warm front stays in place for several days without invading another front, it is called a ______. 

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

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A _____________ weather front occurs when a cold air mass moves forward, pushing the warm air mass up.

• Cold

• Warm

• Stationary

• Occluded

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Which type of weather front can produce foggy and/or drizzling rain weather that can last for several days?

• Cold

• Warm

• Stationary

• Occluded

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Which type of weather front can produce precipitation (rain or snow)?

• Cold

• Warm

• Stationary

• Occluded

• All of the above

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What type of weather will you see along a cold front?

• Thunderstorms

• Sunny skies

• Gentle rain

• No weather

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