When a cold air mass and a warm air mass meet, and there is no horizontal motion of either air mass, it is called a(n) __________.
• Air masses and how they interact • Difference between fronts: cold, warm, stationary, occluded • What happens when there is no horizontal movement of the air masses
• Ask yourself: which type of front involves two air masses meeting but neither one is advancing over the other? • Which named fronts (cold, warm, occluded) specifically involve one air mass moving and replacing another? • If a front is described mainly by motion (cold air advancing vs warm air advancing), does that match the situation in the question where there is no movement?
• Verify which front forms when air masses meet and one actively displaces the other. • Identify the front that, by definition, occurs when the boundary is not moving significantly. • Eliminate any option whose definition requires motion of one air mass into the other.
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