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7. When does America have typically have its most violent weather?_____________ Why?

Site 4: Air Mass Visualizations

8. In the first illustration, what kind of air mass is passing over the region? What type of weather

will it bring?________________________________________________________________

9. In the second illustration, what kind of air mass is passing over southern California? What

type of weather will it bring?____________________________________________________

Site 5: Front Illustrations

10. Click on the “Cold Front.” What happens in the illustration?___________________________

11.Click on the “Warm Front.” What happens in the illustration?__________________________

12. In both the cold front and the warm front, warm air rises and cold air stays near Earth’s

surface. How are they different?

Site 6: Cold Fronts

13. What is a cold front and in what direction does one typically move?_________________

14. How are cold fronts represented on a weather map?_______________________________

15. From the chart at the bottom of the page, what happens to the wind as a cold front passes

through? What about the precipitation?_______________________________________

Site 7: Warm Fronts

16. What is a warm front and in what direction does one typically move? ______________

17. How are warm fronts represented on a weather map?_____________________________

18 . From the chart at the bottom of the page, when a warm front passes through an area,

what happens to the temperature and precipitation levels in that area?_________________

Site 8: Stationary Fronts

19 . What is a stationary front and what type of weather does one typically bring?

20. What is the weather map symbol for a stationary front?_____________________________

Site 9.

https://climate.ncsu.edu/edu/k12/.fronts

22. How does an occluded front form?___________________________________________________

23. What is the weather map symbol for an occluded front?

Site 9: Review Quiz

Got to the above website and answer all 15 questions. When you finish, write down

your score as the number you got right (out of 15) and the percent (out of 100) it equals.

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