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15 Cards in this Set
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Air Mass
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A huge body of air that has similar temperature, humidity, and air pressure at any given height
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Tropical
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A warm air mass that forms in the tropics and has low air pressure
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Polar
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A cold air mass that forms north of 50 degrees north latitude or south of 50 degrees south latitude and has high air pressure
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Maritime
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A humid air mass that forms over oceans
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Continental
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A dry air mass that forms over land
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Front
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The boundary where unlike air masses meet but do not mix
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Occluded
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Cut off, as in a front where warm air mass is caught between two 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 pressure
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Storm
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A violent disturbance in the atmosphere
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Thunderstorm
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A small storm often acconpanied by heavy precipitation and frequent thunder and lightning
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Lightning
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A sudden spark, or energy discharge, caused when electrical charges jump between parts of a clouds, or between a cloud and the ground
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Tornado
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A rapidly whirling, funnel-shaped cloud that reaches down from a storm cloud to touch Earth's surface
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Hurricane
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A tropical storm that has winds of about 119 kilometers per hour or higher
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Storm Surge
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A "dome" of ater that sweeps across the coast
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