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=== 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?
 * 3) Define an air mass? An air mass is a large body of air that has similar temperature and moisture properties throughout.
 * 4) How large may an air mass be?
 * 5) What does the term moist mean?
 * 6) If an air mass is humid what does that mean?
 * 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.
 * 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?Because they transport colder and drier air southward.
 * 15) What is a front? T he boundaries between air masses.
 * 16) What typically happens when two different types of fronts collide? They turn into a another temperature.
 * 17) What are the four types of fonts? Cold, Warm, Occluded, Stationary.
 * 18) Describe the temperature of the air behind a cold front.Temperature can drop 15 degrees within the first hour.