Exam 6: Weather Systems

Maritime equatorial air masses are:

Continental tropical air masses are:

A weather front along which a moving warm front has overtaken a cold front, forcing the cold air mass aloft, is called an occluded front.

In the North Atlantic, the peak of hurricane season occurs during:

Explain how air masses are classified.

A tool that is commonly used to track tropical cyclones is:

As a warm front moves, it rises up over colder air which can produce extensive stratus cloud development.

Types of anticyclone include wave anticyclones, tropical anticyclones, and tornados.

An air mass is a spiraling flow of air that blows inward towards a central area of low pressure.

The air mass found in the area labeled 8 would be designated:

The city of New Orleans was badly damaged in 2005 as a result of hurricane:

In a cyclone:

An air mass that formed over the Gulf of Mexico would be classified as a maritime equatorial air mass.

The surface of contact between two different air masses is called an occlusion.

The final stage of a wave cyclone is the:

Which front tends to move most quickly?

A weather front along which a moving cold front has overtaken a warm front, forcing the warm air mass aloft, is called an occluded front.

In an anticyclone, rising air is warmed adiabatically so there is little condensation and skies tend to be mostly clear.

Weak cyclones are associated with little more than a period of cloud cover and light precipitation.

Which of the following air masses would be likely to contain the most water vapor?