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Las nubes frontales se forman:Frontal clouds form:

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Correct answer: d) When two air masses, one relatively cold and one warm, meet and the warm mass climbs over the cold, cooling adiabatically.

Why it is correct

They form as warm air climbs over cold.

Why the others are not

  • a) Those are convective.
  • b) Those are orographic.
  • c) The mechanism differs.

How to work it out in the exam

  1. Frontal: one mass climbs the other.

Where this question comes from

Try it: Weather visuals

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