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air mass
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A huge body of air that has similar temperature, humidity, and air pressure throughout it.
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Name the 4 major types of air masses that influence the weather in North America.
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1. maritime tropical
2. continental tropical
3. maritime polar
4. continental polar
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Describe a tropical air mass.
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A warm air mass that forms in the tropics and has low air pressure.
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Describe a polar air mass.
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A cold air mass that forms north of 50˚N or south of 50˚S and has high air pressure.
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Describe a maritime air mass.
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An air mass that forms over water and is moist.
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State 3 characteristics of a maritime tropical air mass.
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1. warm
2. humid
3. forms over oceans near the tropics
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State 3 characteristics of a maritime polar air mass.
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1. cool
2. humid
3. forms over the icy cold North Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans
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cyclone
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A swirling center of low pressure.Cool air spirals inward.
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Anticyclone
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High pressure centers of dry air. The wind spirals out.
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What direction does a cyclone turn in North America?
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Winds of a cyclone (L) spin counterclockwise.
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What direction does an anticyclone turn in North America?
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The winds of an anticyclone (H) spin clockwise.
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State 3 characteristics of a continental tropical air mass.
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1. hot
2. dry
3. form over dry areas of the Southwest
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State 3 characteristics of a continental polar air mass.
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1. cool or cold
2. dry
3. forms over northern Canada or Alaska
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When two air masses meet, why does the warm air mass rise?
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The warm air mass has a lower density than the cold air mass.
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What is a front?
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The area where two air masses meet but do NOT mix.
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Name the four types of fronts.
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1. cold front
2. warm front
3. stationary front
4. occluded front
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cold front
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Moving cold air meets a warm air mass and puches the warm air up and over the cold air.
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warm front
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Moving warm air mass meets and moves over the cold air.
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occluded front
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A warm air mass is cought above a cold air mass and a cool air mass that are close to the ground.
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stationary front
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Cold and warm air masses meet and neither one has enough force to move.
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What three things (characteristics) are similar in an air mass.
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1. similar temperature
2. similar air pressure
3. similar humidity