Chapter 3.1: Weather Fronts And Storms
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Questions and Answers
- 1.What type of weather system brings stormy weather?
- A.
Low pressure
- B.
High pressure
- 2.What type of front passed if the weather was stormy for a short time then becomes cooler?
- A.
Stationary front
- B.
Cold front
- C.
Warm front
- 3.What type of weather system brings calm weather?
- A.
High pressure
- B.
Low pressure
- 4.A maritime tropical air mass is ________ and _________?
- A.
Warm and dry
- B.
Cold and dry
- C.
Moist and warm
- 5.What are two characteristics of an air mass that you need to know in order to classify it? There are two correct answers!
- A.
Moisture
- B.
Movement
- C.
Temperature
- 6.What type of air mass forms near the equator?
- A.
Polar
- B.
Tropical
- 7.What type of front occurs when air masses meet?
- A.
Warm front
- B.
Cold front
- C.
Stationary front
- 8.What is it when a large volume of air in which temperature and humidity are nearly the same in different locations at the same altitude?
- A.
Front
- B.
Air mass
- C.
Tropical storm
- 9.What way does a low pressure system turn?
- A.
Counter clockwise
- B.
Clockwise
- C.
Slowly
- 10.What air mass category means that the air mass formed over water?
- A.
Maritime
- B.
Continental
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