What is the difference between a cold front and a warm front?

At a cold front, cold air pushes under warm air and forces it up quickly, so tall clouds and thunderstorms form and cooler weather follows. At a warm front, warm air slides gently up over cold air, bringing layers of clouds, light rain and warmer weather.

Which way does wind blow around high and low pressure?

Wind blows counterclockwise and inward around a low. It blows clockwise and outward around a high, and the weather near a high is usually clear and dry.

6th Grade Air Masses and Fronts Worksheets

Ages 11-12 · Free previews · Print-ready PDFs

Written by Adi Ackerman, Head Teacher

An air mass is a huge body of air that takes on the temperature and moisture of the place where it forms, and a front is the boundary where two air masses meet. These air masses and fronts pages hold 2 6th grade worksheets, each with an answer key. Air Masses and Fronts has students label front diagrams and complete a table of air mass codes. Reading a Weather Map has students use front symbols and pressure centers to predict which towns will cool, warm or get rain. Both sheets carry MS-ESS2-5.

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Air Masses and Fronts

Grade6th Grade

TopicEarth Systems

Reading a Weather Map

Grade6th Grade

TopicEarth Systems

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Frequently Asked Questions

They are air mass codes. Continental air is dry, maritime air is humid, tropical air is warm and polar air is cold, so mT is maritime tropical and cP is continental polar.

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