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Ch. 24 Vocab sec 1&2
Ch. 24 Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Air Mass | large body of air through which temperature and moisture content are similar |
| cold front | front edge of a moving mass of cold air that pushes beneath a warmer air mass like a wedge |
| warm front | front edge of advancing warm air mass that replaces colder air with warmer air |
| stationary front | front of air masses that moves either very slowly or not at all |
| occluded front | front that forms when a cold air mass over takes a warm air mass and lifts the warm air mass off the ground and over another air mass |
| midlatitude cyclone | an area of low pressure that is characterized by rotating wind that moves toward the rising air of the central low pressure region |
| thunderstorm | usually brief, heavy storm that consists of rain, strong winds, lightning, and thunder |
| Tornado | destructive, rotating column of air that has very high wind speeds and that maybe visible as a funnel shaped cloud |
| hurricane | severe storm that develops over tropical oceans and whose strong winds of more then 120 km/h spiral in toward the intensely low-pressure storm center |
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