🔍 Key Concepts

• Typical slope differences between warm fronts and cold fronts • How gentle or steep the lifting of warm air is along a warm front • The relationship between horizontal distance and vertical height in miles

💭 Think About

• Compare which option shows the gentlest (most gradual) slope, since warm fronts usually have very shallow angles • Think about what kind of front is associated with widespread, layered clouds and steady precipitation—would that need a gradual or a steep slope? • Rank the answer choices from steepest to most gradual and decide where a typical warm front should fall on that spectrum

✅ Before You Answer

• Be sure you understand that a larger horizontal distance for the same 1 mile vertical means a more gradual slope • Double-check which choice has the greatest horizontal distance, and which has the smallest • Confirm from your study materials that warm fronts are much more gradual than cold fronts, and match that idea to the best ratio given