Air Masses & Weather Fronts Vocab

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What type of air mass forms over the icy cold North Atlantic Ocean and is cool and humid?

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Maritime Polar

Front

What type of air mass is characterized by hot, dry conditions and forms mostly in summer over dry areas of the southwest and northern Mexico?

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Continental Tropical

Front

What is the term for a fast-moving warm air mass that overtakes a slower cold air mass, causing the warm air to move over the cold air?

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Warm Front

Front

What type of pressure is associated with sinking air where clouds cannot form?

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High Pressure

Front

What do we call the interaction of colliding air masses?

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Front

Front

What type of air mass is typically dry and forms over land?

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Continental Air Mass

Front

What type of air mass is typically moist and forms over oceans?

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Maritime Air Mass

Front

What is the term for the boundary between two different air masses?

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Front

Front

What type of front occurs when a cold air mass pushes into a warm air mass, causing the warm air to rise?

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Cold Front

Front

What type of front occurs when a warm air mass meets a cold air mass and neither moves significantly?

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Stationary Front