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| The atmosphere tends to arrange itself into what? |
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| Large masses with relatively little horizontal change in temperature and humidity. |
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| Air masses form over particular what? |
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| Large areas of high or low latitudes of either continental or maritime locations. |
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| List the five major types of air masses |
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Continental Polar
Continental Arctic
Maritime Polar
Continental Tropical
Maritime Tropical |
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| Air remains over a large area with characteristic temperature and humidity for extended periods. |
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| List the four types of fronts |
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Cold
Warm
Stationary
Occluded |
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| Fronts are components of what weather systems? |
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| Cold fronts tend to promote what? |
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| Warm fronts are more inclined to be accompanied by what? |
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| Stationary fronts are similar in structure to what? |
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| How mobile are Stationary fronts? |
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| Not very, they remain in place with little movement. |
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| Occluded fronts are formed with what? |
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| The merger of cold and warm fronts. |
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| How are Drylines similar to fronts? |
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| Fronts separate air masses and mark what kind of boundary? |
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| Drylines separate air masses and mark what kind of boundary? |
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| Large bodies of air with more or less uniform temperature and moisture that cover a large area. |
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| The resulting winds that can bring cold winds and heavy snowfall, from midlatitude cyclones pass over a region, the circulating air sweeps over a low pressure system and approaches the coast from the northeast. |
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| The differing densities of two air masses discourage mixing, so the warm air flows upward along the boundary. |
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| What does ozone in the stratosphere do? |
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| It reduces our exposure to harmful ultravioliet radiation, by absorbing it. |
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| What does ozone at the surface do? |
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| Expose us to it's harmful effects. |
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| List the North Hemispheric Semi Permanent Pressure Cells (Lows) |
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| List the North Hemispheric Semi Permanent Pressure Cells (Highs) |
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Siberian High
Hawaiian High
Bermuda High |
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| Where do you find rainforests? |
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| Where do you find desserts? |
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| What are the ITCZ and Subtropical High a part of? |
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