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8- 3 defanitions
Term | Definition |
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air mass | A huge body of air that has simular tempature ,humidaty,and air pressuer throughout |
Anticyclone | A high-pressure center of dry air |
Continental | A dry air mass that forms over land |
Cyclone | A swerlling center of low air - pressure . |
Front | The bondrey where unlike air - masses meet but do not mix |
Maritime | A humid air mass that forms over oceans |
Occluded | Cut off as in a front where warm air mass is caght between two cooler air masses . |
Polar | A cold air mass that forms north of 50 north latitued or south of 50 south latatuied and has high air pressuer . |
Tropical | A warm air mass that forms in the tropics and has a low air pressuer. |