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Air Masses 1
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Weather
Air Masses 2
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What is another name for hurricane?
Cyclone
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What cause air masses in North America to move?
What are jet streams or previaling winds
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What is it called where two air masses meet?
Front
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A scientist who studies the causes of weather and tries to predict.
What is a meteorologist?
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An area of low pressure, winds spiraling into the center.
What is a cyclone?
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Weather Station
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In which directions do jet streams move?
West to East
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A curved line with red half circles on it is the symbol for a ?
Warm front
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What is weather balloon?
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An air mass that is warm/hot and humid.
What is Maritime Tropical?
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Cool air comes in from areas of ____________ pressure.
High pressure
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Explain a Continental Polar air mass.
What is cool and dry?
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The weather forecast indicates that the weather will be turning cold very quickly with the chance clouds, light rain or snow. What type of front would cause this?
Cold front.
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When a warm air mass is caught between two cold fronts?
What is Occluded?
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What is a huge body of air that has similar temperature, humidity and air pressure at any given height?
What are air masses?
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Warm air mass meets and rises above cold air masses during this kind of front
Warm front.
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A band of high- speed winds about 6-14km above the Earth's surface.
What are jet streams?
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This type of front brings many days of cloudy, wet weather and a warm air mass runs into a cold air mass but neither can move
Stationary front.
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The condition of the atmosphere at a particular place and time
Weather
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Where are Maritime air masses likely to form?
What is ocean water?
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What makes weather so hard to predict?
The atmosphere works in such a way that a small change in weather today can mean a larger change in weather a week later.
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A cool dry air mass is?
DAILY DOUBLE...And where would it form?
What is Continental Polar?
What is Canada?
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What does accurate weather do?
Help prepare us for dangerous weather and farmers...so they can harvest their crops at the right time.
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A large body of air with similar temperature, humidity and air pressure that forms over land or water.
Air mass
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What causes air masses to become to become warmer?
What is the Gulf Stream effect?