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Definitions
Air masses
Fronts
Weather Patterns
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A violent disturbance in the Atmosphere
What is a storm
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hints: warm, wet, forms over water.
What is maritime tropical
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what are the four types of fronts
What are are warm fronts, stationary fronts, cold fronts, and occluded fronts.
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A scientist who studies weather
What is a meterologists
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A tropical cyclone that has winds of 119 kilometers per hour or higher
What is a hurricane
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hints: cold,wet, forms over water.
What is maritime polar
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A warm air mass overtakes a slow-moving cold air mass
What is a warm front
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What is the science of studying weather.
What is a Meteroligist
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A swirling center of low air pressure
What is a cyclone
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hints: dry, warm, forms over land
What is continental tropical
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A fast- moving cold air mass overtakes a warm air mass
What is a cold front
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Why has weather forecasting improved?
What is Technological improvements in gathering weather data and using computers.
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A high-pressure center of dry air
What is a anticyclone
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hints: dry, cold, forms over land
What is continental polar
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Cold and warm air masses meet but can not move the other
What is a stationary front
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A line on a map connecting points having the same atmospheric pressure at a given time or an average over a given period.
What is an isobar
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The boundary where unlike air masses meet but do not mix
What is a front
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What two winds move air masses in the continental united states.
what is Prevailing Westerlies and Jet Streams
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A warm air mass is caught between two cooler air masses
What is a occluded front
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What instruments have improved weather collecting in the last 40 years?
What is Weather Balloons, weather satellites, automated, weather stations, and computer forecasts.