1. Name the fronts that these symbols represent:

2. Name the air mass characterized below:a) Warm and humidb) Warm and dryc) Cool and humidd) Cool and dry

West to East or East to West?› West to east

Why?› The prevailing westerlies blow the weather

from the west towards the east

Wind Speed Symbols

Cloud cover is shown by shaded circles. On this map the circles are either not shaded at all, half-shaded, or fully shaded. Who can tell me what a fully shaded circle represents?

They are curved lines on weather maps that connect places with similar conditions.

Isobars – are lines joining places on the map that have the same AIR PRESSURE.

(measured in inches or millibars) Isotherms – are lines joining places that

have the same TEMPERATURE. (measured in degrees)

* *See Textbook pg. 587