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Chapter 17& 18
Question | Answer |
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These are people who study weather and try to predict it | meteorologist |
This type of front may bring many days of rain due to lack of movement | Stationary Front |
These types of fronts are represented with triangles and half circles on the same side of the line | Occluded Front |
This is the name of an air mass that could form over northern Mexico and move to southwestern US | Continental Tropical |
These types of fronts are represented with triangles and half circles on the opposite side of a line on a weather map | Stationary Front |
This type of front is formed when a rapidly moving cold air mass runs into a slow moving warm air mass | Cold Front |
These are two major factors used to classify climates | Precipitation and Temperature |
Types of air masses that bring dry weather to an area form over this | Land |
Newspaper weather maps often use colors to indicate these in different areas | Temperatures |
Triangle and half circles on a weather map show the type and directions of these | Fronts |