Question

Fronts are termed by the temperature of the air mass that overtakes another air mass. A. True B. False

Answer 1

A. True
if cold air is replacing warm air it is a cold front and vice versa.

Answer 2

Answer:

The Answer is B) False

Explanation:

The key word there is overtakes.

A weather front is a boundary separating two masses of air of different densities, and is the principal cause of meteorological phenomena outside the tropics.

Air masses create weather as they are moved by winds around the globe. Fronts develop at the boundary where two air masses with different temperatures—and, usually, different humidities—come into contact with each other or in essence collide.

The term front was suggested the creator of the word because the collision of two air masses reminded them of a battlefront during a military operation.

So air masses collide NOT overtake each other in order to form a front.

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