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26. When two air masses meet, what happens?
Name
Weather Fronts
Questions
7. Warm air is ______.
1. What are air masses?
A. less dense than cold air
B. lighter than cold air
C. thinner than cold air
D. all of the above
8. When a warm and a cold air mass meet, what happens?
A. The warm air would slide up and over the cold air.
B. The heavier cold air would sink and slide in under the
warm air.
2. Air masses are named for ______.
C. Some form of precipitation would occur.
A. animals
D. all of the above
B. people
C. where they form
9. Cooler air can hold less water than warm air.
D. the type of air they contain
A. true
B. false
3. Low pressure air masses are called ______.
A. stationary front
10. Air masses are different in many ways. Which of these is NOT
B. occluded front
different?
C. anticyclones
A. atmospheric pressure
D. cyclones
B. temperature
C. moisture contents
4. A cold front usually brings what kind of weather?
D. ratio of oxygen/nitrogen
A. rain and/or thunderstorms
B. sunny and fair
C. snow
D. cool and dry
5. When a cold front or a warm front stays in place for several
days without invading another front, it is called a ______.
A. occluded front
B. cold front
C. warm front
D. stationary front
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