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| what is maritime? | a humid air mass that forms over oceans.
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| what is continental? | a dry air mass that forms over land.
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| what is a front? | the boundary where unlike air masses meet but do not mix.
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| what is occluded? | cut off, as in a front where warm air mass is caught between two cooler air masses.
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| what is a cyclone? | a swirling center of low air pressure.
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| what is an anticyclone? | a high-pressure center of dry air.
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| where do continental polar masses come from? | central and northern canada and alaska.
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| what are air masses and fronts? | a body of air that has a similar temperature, humidity, and air pressure at any given height is called an air mass.
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| what is tropical? | warm low pressure
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| what is polar? | cold high pressure
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| what is maritime? | HUMID marine come from over oceans
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| what is continental? | dry come from over continents
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| what is maritime tropical? | warm humid air forms over tropical oceans, bring hot humid weather in summer, bring heavy rain or snow in winter.
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| what is maritime polar? | cool humid air forms over icy cold north pacific and north atlantic oceans. bring fog, rain, and cool temps to west coast.
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| what is continental tropical? | hot dry air cover a smaller area than other air masses form over southwest and northern mexico
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| what is continental polar? | cold dry air forms over northern canada and alaska. bring bitterly cold dry clear weather in winter. storms may occur when this mass meets maritime tropical air.
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| what are prevailing westerlies? | generally push air masses from west to east (in the U.S.)
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| what are jet streams? | high altitude, blow from west to east.
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| what are fronts? | where air masses meet but do not mix.
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| what are types of fronts? | cold, dense air sinks while warm less dense air tends to rise.
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