Weather Multiple Choice Test

When water droplets in a cloud combine, become to heavy, and fall to the ground as rain, snow, sleet, or hail, we are experiencing?

A ________ is a large body of air that has the same properties as the Earth's surface over which it developed.

Humidity is the amount of water vapor in the air. What temperature air has the ability to hold the most moisture. Think about when it is most humid, in the winter or the summer.

The boundary between cold and warm air masses is called?

Which of the following is often found along a front?

Air masses are described based on two factors. Which of the flooding lists the characteristics of air masses?

What color would a cold front appear on a weather map?

Violent storms, such as thunderstorms, generally form along?

To keep track of high and low pressure areas, weather maps are drawn with lines connecting points of equal air pressure. These lines are called?

Areas of low pressure usually have?

High pressure means good weather because _______?

In the 1920's, the term to describe the boundary between 2 different air masses got its name because this area was similar to the area where two opposing armies fought during a war. Eventually, one side advances, pushing the other out of the way.

Which kind of front may form when cool air, cold air, and warm air meet?

Which direction does a stationary front move?

Refers to the state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place.

A ______ front has little or no movement.

A warm front is what color on the weather map?

Areas of less dense, warm air that is forced upward, usually resulting in bad weather.

A percent that indicates how much water vapor is in the air on any given day.

A warm air mass takes over a colder air mass.

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