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Question 0

What are the four major types of air masses that influence the weather in North America

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Maritime tropical maritime polar continental tropical continental polar

Question 1

Scientists classify air masses according to blank and blank

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Temperatures and humidity

Question 2

Maritime tropical forms over

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Water

Question 3

Maritime tropical is warm or cold humid or dry

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Warm humid

Question 4

Maritime polar is warm or cold humid or dry

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Cool humid

Question 5

Maritime polar forms over

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Water

Question 6

Continental tropical forms over

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Land

Question 7

Continental polar forms over

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Land

Question 8

Continental tropical is how or cold humid or dry

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Hot dry

Question 9

Continental polar is warm or cold humid or dry

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Cold dry

Question 10

When an air mass moves into an area and interacts with others air masses it causes

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The weather to change

Question 11

In the U.S. air masses are commonly moved by the

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Prevailing westerlies and jet streams

Question 12

Air masses generally move from

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West to east

Question 13

When to air masses collide that have a different temperature and humidity , they

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Don’t mix easily

Question 14

The boundary where air masses meet become a

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Front

Question 15

Storms and changeable weather often develop along

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A front

Question 16

4 types of fronts

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Cold warm stationary occluded

Question 17

Warm air is less blank and tends to blank

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Dense rise

Question 18

Explain cold front

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When a fast moving cold air mass runs into a slow moving warm air mass, the denser cold air slides under the warm air and pushed it upward

Question 19

Explain warm front

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Fast moving warm air mass overtakes slow cold air masses. Moves above cold air

Question 20

Explain stationary front

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Cold air mass and hot air mass meet, but cannot move eachother

Question 21

Explain occluded front

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Warm air mass caught between 2 cold air masses

Question 22

Storm

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Violent disturbance in the atmosphere

Question 23

Storms involve sudden changes in air pressure that causes

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Rapid air movements

Question 24

Types of storms:

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Thunderstorms tornadoes

Question 25

Thunderstorm:

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Small storm often with heavy rain, thunder and lightning

Question 26

Lightning:

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Sudden spark or electrical discharge as positive and negative charges move around

Question 27

Thunder:

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The rapid heating of air by lightning that expands suddenly and explosively

Question 28

Tornado:

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rapidly whirling funnel shaped cloud that reaches down from a storm cloud to touch earths surface

Question 29

Waterspout:

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Tornado over water