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8 Cards in this Set
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Tropical
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Warm air mass forms in the tropics and low air pressure.
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Polar
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Cold air mass forms 50 north latitude and south 50 and has high air pressure.
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Maritime
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Humid air mass that forms over oceans
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Continental
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Dry air mass that forms over land.
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Front
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Boundary where unlike air masses meet but do not mix.
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Occluded
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Cutt off in a front where warm air mass is caught between cooler air masses.
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Cyclone
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A swirling center of low air pressure
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Anticyclone
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A high pressure center of dry air
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