WorksheetsScience 3.2 Quiz
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
Boundary where two air masses meet.
Prevailing Westerlies
Polar Easterlies
Front
Cyclone
A non-moving front
Occluded Front
Warm Front
Stationary Front
Cold Front
A swirling center of low air pressure
Anti-cyclone
Bi-cyclone
Cyclone
Tri-cyclone
A high-pressure center of dry air
Anti-cyclone
Bi-cyclone
Cyclone
Tri-cyclone
A band of high-speed winds about 6 to 14 km above
Earth’s surface.
Jet Stream
Polar Easterlies
Prevailing Westerlies
Trade Winds
Huge body of air that has similar temperature, ________ Jet Stream
humidity, and air pressure at any given height.
Air Mass
Land Breeze
Cumulonimbus Clouds
Sea Breeze
Air masses are always moving
True
False
The kind of front that develops depends on the characteristics of the air masses and the ....
Speed at which they move
how much they move
direction they move
what they are moving
A warm air mass is caught between two cold fronts
Warm
Cold
Stationary
Occluded
A cold air mass runs into a warm air mass.
Cold Front
Warm Front
Stationary Front
Occluded Front
A fast-moving warm air mass overtakes a slower-moving cold air mass.
Cold Front
Warm Front
Stationary Front
Occluded Front
New Mexico traditionally has hot, dry air. What kind of air mass would most likely bring this sort ofweather?
Continental Polar
Maritime Polar
Continental Tropical
Maritime Tropical
