Weather & Climate

The same air mass will have the same characteristics including

• pressure and temperature

• temperature and dewpoint

• temperature and humidity

• humidity and x-rays

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What is a source region?

• The area which the air mass is found

• the characteristics an air mass acquires, such as temperature and humidity based on where the air mass forms.

• where the air mass is headed.

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Which air is less dense? (Which air will rise)

• Warm Air

• Cool Air

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What is a front?

• A place where air masses meet
• the front part of a storm
• An area of very high wind
• an area that has fair weather

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rapidly moving cold air  mass runs into a warm air mass the cold air slides under the warm air. This is called a  .....

• cold front
• warm front
• stationary front

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This is the symbol for which type of front?

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

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Large pockets of air that may cover ten thousand or more square miles are called______________________.

• air masses

• weather fronts

• stationary fronts

• pressure zones

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Weather fronts usually cause clouds and precipitation

• True

• False

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What type of front does this symbol indicate?

• Warm Front

• Cold Front

• Stationary Front

• Occluded Front

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What type of front does this symbol indicate?

• Warm Front

• Cold Front

• Stationary Front

• Occluded Front

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