Weather quiz

What are the major air masses?

• Maritime tropical, continental tropical, Maritime polar, continental polar

• Maritime tropical, continental tropical, Prevailing Westerlies, Jetstreams

• Fronts, Jetstreams, waterslides

• Maritime polar, continental polar, warm fronts, stationary fronts

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A boundary where unlike air masses meet is called a front.

• True
• False

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What do you call an air mass that forms over land near the equator?

• Maritime Tropical

• Continental Tropical

• Continental Polar

• None of these are correct.

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What do you call cool, humid air masses that form over the icy cold North Atlantic ocean?

• Maritime Continental

• Maritime Polar

• Continental Tropical

• Tropical air

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Air masses are classified according to location and season.

• True
• False

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When cold air mass comes in, it's a cold front.

• True
• False

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What is the name of the line on a map that connects similar air masses?

• Sleet

• Current

• Front

• Isobar

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What is a cyclone?

• A swirling center of low air pressure.

• None

• A swirling center or high air pressure.

• Both

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A high pressure system is a(n)

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There are four types of freezing precipitation...

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