Quiz – Atmosphere
Content Objective
Students will demonstrate knowledge of major air masses and frontal boundaries and what causes them while using a video clip, teacher explanation, and their text book.
E.ES.07.74 Describe weather conditions associated with frontal boundaries (cold, warm, stationary, and occluded) and the movement of major air masses and the jet stream across North America using a weather map.
Language Objective
Students will write to and draw to describe the different types of major air masses and what causes them by completing sentence frames and creating diagrams of each.
- A ______ is a place where ______________________________.
11.A cold front occurs when a ________ air mass collides with a _______ air mass and because the cold air is ____ dense than the warm air it ____________.
12.The type of weather associated with a cold front is __________ _____________________.
13.A warm front occurs when a ________ air mass collides with a _______ air mass and because the warm air is ____ dense than the cold air it _____________.
14.The type of weather associated with a warm front is __________ _____________________.
15.The other two types of fronts are the _________ and the _________.
16.In all four types of fronts, warm air ____________, __________form, and there is plenty of ______________.
17.On weather maps, the symbol for cold fronts is ____ and the symbol for warm fronts is ____.
HOMEWORK – Study for Quiz – Wind & Heat Transfer