Weather Patterns
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each of the black spaces below before clicking
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| Cold Front | When a rapidly moving cold air mass overtakes a slow moving warm air mass.
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| Warm Front | When a warm air mass overtakes a cold air mass.
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| Stationary Front | When a warm air mass and a cold air mass meet and neither can move the other.
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| Occluded Front | Where a warm air mass is caught between two cooler air masses.
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| Storm | A violent disturbance in the atmosphere.
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| Tornado | A funnel shaped cloud that touches Earth's surface.
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| Hurricane | A long-lasting storm that starts over the warm surface of the ocean and has winds of 119 km or higher.
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| Flash Floods | Sudden, violent floods that occur shortly after a storm.
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| Meteorologist | A scientist that studies weather and tries to predict it.
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| Isotherms | Lines on a map joining places with the same temperature.
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| Isobars | Lines on a map joining places that have the same air pressure.
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| Front | The boundary where unlike air masses meet but do not easily mix.
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