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What is a large body of air where temperature and moisture are similar throughout.
a) front
b) cold
c) air mass
d) polar

What type of air mass forms over water and is usually moist?
a) maritime
b) continental
c) polar
d) tropical

What type of air mass forms over land is usually dry?
a) maritime
b) continental
c) polar
d) tropical

What type of air mass forms over polar regions and is usually cold?
a) maritime
b) continental
c) polar
d) tropical

What type of air mass develops over the tropics and is usually warm?
a) maritime
b) continental
c) polar
d) tropical

What type of front has cold air moving under warm air and pushing up the warm air?
a) cold
b) warm
c) occluded
d) stationary

What type of front has warm air moving over cold air and gradually the warm air replaces the cold air.
a) cold
b) warm
c) stationary
d) occluded

What type of front has cold air meeting warm air, but neither is strong enough to take over the other.
a) warm
b) cold
c) stationary
d) occluded

What type of front has a warm air mass caught between two cold air masses?
a) cold
b) warm
c) stationary
d) occluded

This symbol of a ___________ front uses blue triangles.
a) cold
b) warm
c) stationary
d) occluded

This symbol of a ____________ front uses red half circles.
a) cold
b) warm
c) stationary
d) occluded

This symbol of a ___________ front uses blue triangles on one side of the line and red half circles on the other side of the line.
a) warm
b) cold
c) stationary
d) occluded

This symbol of a _______ front uses alternating blue triangles and red half circles.
a) warm
b) cold
c) occluded
d) stationary

What type of weather is associated with a cold front?
a) drizzly rain and then clear and warm weather
b) several days of cloudy wet weather
c) thunderstorms followed by clear cool weather
d) large amounts of precipitation

What type of weather is associated with a warm front?
a) drizzly rain and then clear and warm weather
b) several days of cloudy wet weather
c) thunderstorms followed by clear cool weather
d) large amounts of precipitation

What type of weather is associated with a stationary front?
a) drizzly rain and then clear and warm weather
b) several days of cloudy wet weather
c) thunderstorms followed by clear cool weather
d) large amounts of precipitation

What type of weather is associated with an occluded front?
a) drizzly rain and then clear and warm weather
b) several days of cloudy wet weather
c) thunderstorms followed by clear cool weather
d) large amounts of precipitation

_____________ is usually a brief heavy storm that consists of rain, strong winds, lightning thunder.
a) hurricane
b) tornado
c) thunderstorm
d) blizzard

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