Weather Chapter 3

Question 0

Maritime Polar

Answer 0

Cool, humid, form over the icy cold North Pacific and North Atlantic oceans

Question 1

Maritime Tropical

Answer 1

Warm, Humid air masses, Forms over oceans near the tropics

Question 2

Continental Tropical

Answer 2

Hot, dry air masses that form only in summer over dry areas of Mexico

Question 3

Continental Polar

Answer 3

Cold, dry air

Question 4

A huge body of air that has similar temperature, humidity, and air pressure throughout it

Answer 4

Air mass

Question 5

The area where air masses meet and don’t mix

Answer 5

Front

Question 6

Cold air moving under warm air forcing the warm to rise

Answer 6

Cold Front

Question 7

What are the 4 types of fronts?

Answer 7

Warm, cold, stationary, occluded

Question 8

Warm air moves over cold air

Answer 8

Warm front

Question 9

When the warm and cold meet but neither one has the strength to move the other

Answer 9

Stationary Front

Question 10

When a cold and cool air mass come together, the warm air caught between them is forced upward

Answer 10

Occluded Front