WeatherfrontsICS18MAZ

=== Weather FrontsRead the information about Weather Fronts ===
 * The purpose of this module is to introduce air masses and weather fronts .. You will be able to describe from where they originate and some basic properties about each air mass affecting the United States. **

=== View: Cold and Warm Front Demonstration ===

Answer the questions below.

 * 1) What happens when different types of are air masses collide? The warm front comes and then the cold front comes directly after the warm front.
 * 2)  What are the boundaries of air mass called? Warm front and cold front.
 * 3) Define an air mass? it is warm front and old fronts.
 * 4) How large may an air mass be?
 * 5) What does the term moist mean. It means wet and kind of humid, and wet misty.
 * 6) If an air mass is humid what does that mean?It is warm/hot air all around.
 * 7) Describe an air mass which forms over Canada in terms of its temperature and moisture.
 * 8) Describe an air mass that forms over a desert in terms of its temperature and moisture.
 * 9) Describe an air mass that forms over water in Gulf of Mexico in terms of its temperature and moisture. It could be a warm or cold front depending on where it is happening it will probably be a warm front.
 * 10) In the area of the Unites states, which way do cold air masses move? (North or South)
 * 11) In the area of the Unites states which way do warm air masses move?
 * 12) Why are Canadian air masses considered to be dry air masses?
 * 13) What happens when a warm humid air mass meat a cold dry air mass?
 * 14) Why can cold air masses from Canada make it all the way down to the Gulf of Mexico?
 * 15) What is a front? It is a flash or a certain time or period of a specific type of weather.
 * 16) What typically happens when two different types of fronts collide?
 * 17) What are the three types of fonts?Warm front, cold front, and warm and cold front.
 * 18) Describe the temperature of the air behind a cold front.It is gloomy moist and wet.
 * 1) Looking at the diagram above, which state has a temperature of 380F?
 * 2) Looking at the diagram above, which state has a temperature of 550F?
 * 3) Looking at the diagram above, what would you expect the temperature of Illinois to be in three days? EXPLAIN!
 * 4) How does the temperature of an area change as a cold front passes?
 * 5) What does precipitation mean?
 * 6) What type of precipitation occurs when a cold front passes? Cold wet rainy and gloomy.
 * 7) Describe the type of air behind a warm front? Warm and hot and gloomy and very humid and temperatures up to 105 degrees
 * 8)  In which direction do warm fronts typically move.
 * 9) What type of precipitation usually occurs when a warm front passes by.Probably humid air and kind of cold air that could be on thermometer it could be 73 degrees it really is humid outside so it could basically be about 85 degrees because of humidity.
 * 10) Label the two fronts on the diagram below:Warm moist air and colder drier air
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 * 12) How is cold front diagrammed?
 * 13) How is a warm front diagrammed?
 * 14) What is a stationary front?
 * 15) How is a stationary front diagrammed?
 * 16) When warm air contacts cold air, which air mass typically rises above the other?
 * 17) Which of the following is a diagram of cold front and which is the warm front?

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 * 1) How are cold fronts diagrammed? cold fronts are diagrammed by having
 * 2)  How many cold front are there on the diagram?
 * 3) In which direction is the front over Washington and Oregon traveling? How do you know?
 * 4) In which direction is the front over North Carolina traveling?
 * 1) How is the warm front diagrammed?
 * 2) In which direction is the warm front traveling?
 * 3) What do you call the front that is over the middle of Canada?
 * [[image:http://www.mrzimmerman.org/New%20Folder/HW/Weather%20Water/Air%20Masses%20and%20Fronts/Fronts/Questions%20Sheet%20%20Masses%20and%20Fronts_files/image009.jpg caption="Surface Map - Today (AccuWeather)" link="http://wwwa.accuweather.com/adcbin/public/maps_index.asp?type=sfc&day=1"]] ||
 * Surface Map - Today (AccuWeather) ||
 * 1) If it is snowing in Great Neck, what type of air mass must be present?
 * 2)  If its very hot in October in Great Neck, what type of air mass must be present?
 * 3) Assuming a warm front is moving into the area, there is a stagnant (non-moving) cold air mass around Great Neck, what type of precipitation might we expect? How long might it last?