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When a rapidily moving cold air mass overtakes a slower moving warm air mass, a ____ front forms.
a) occluded front
b) warm front
c) cold front
d) stationary front

What type of front forms when a warm air mass and cold air mass meet and neither can move the other?
a) occluded front
b) warm front
c) cold front
d) stationary front

A maritime polar air mass could bring ____________ air along with it.
a) cold and dry
b) cold and wet
c) hot and dry
d) hot and wet

Any form of water that falls from the clouds is called _______.
a) precipitation
b) rain
c) condesation
d) evaporation

A continental polar air mass would bring with it ___________ air.
a) warm and dry
b) cold and dry
c) warm and wet
d) cold and wet

Which wind belt moves air west to east in the United States?
a) polar easterlies
b) doldrums
c) hourse latitudes
d) prevailing westerlies

Which type of cloud often produces thuderstorms?
a) stratus clouds
b) cumulonimbus clouds
c) cirrus clouds
d) nimbostratus clouds

Which of the following measures relative humidity
a) anemometer
b) barometer
c) psychrometer
d) thermometer

Which 2 conditions are needed for a cloud to form?
a) cooling air and the absorption of infrared energy
b) unequal heating of Earth's surface and the presence of particles in the air
c) the presences of particles in the air and the cooling of air
d) unequal heating of the Earth's surface and the influence of the Coriolis effect

A continental tropical air mass would bring __________ weather.
a) warm and dry
b) cold and dry
c) warm and wet
d) cold and wet

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