Weather, Climate, Air Masses, and Fronts

The weight of air pushing down on an object is called

• air elevation

• air mass

• air pressure

• air front

Large, uniform bodies of air are called

• Fronts

• Climate zones

• Currents

• Air masses

Wind is caused by

• cold weather

• rain and clouds crashing into each other

• unequal heating of Earth by the sun

• warm weather

How do meteorologists label different kinds of weather fronts?

• they use lasers

• by using different symbols and colors for each type of front

• by writing the name of the front on the map

• they do not label them

Choose two correct statements...

• warm air sinks

• warm air rises

• cold air rises

• cold air sinks

The current conditions of the air outside right now

• weather

• wind

• climate

• precipitation

True or False:

As air warms, the molecules have less energy and move together.

• True

• False

The long term conditions of temperature and precipitation in an area is called

• weather

• atmosphere

• climate

• latitude

Precipitation is

• only rain

• rain, snow, hail, sleet

• the amount of clouds

• rain gauge

What happens when two different air masses crash into each other?

• they combine

• nothing

• a front is formed

• A huge air mass is created