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| Maritime Polar Air Masses |
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| Cold, humid air masses that bring fog to the West Coast |
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| Clouds that tornadoes and thunderstorms form in |
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| The safest place to be during a tornado |
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| The basement of a well built building |
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| Make the temperature of nearby land LESS extreme |
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| Winter in the Southern Hemisphere |
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| The south end of Earth's axis is tilted away from the sun |
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| Continental Polar Air Masses |
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| Where cold, dry air affecting the Northern United States in WINTER comes from |
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| Occurs when a rapidly moving cold air mass runs into a slow moving warm air mass |
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| Occurs when a warm air mass and a cold air mass meet and NO MOVEMENT occurs |
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| A funnel-shaped cloud that TOUCHES the Earth's surface |
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| Has improved weather forecasting |
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| People who study weather and try to predict it. |
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| Lines on a map joining places that have the same AIR PRESSURE |
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| Lines on a map joining places that have the same temperature |
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| A weather pattern that forms in the Topical Pacific Ocean |
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| Determined by temperature and precipitation |
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| Caused by a combination of longer days and more direct rays from the sun |
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| Caused by the tilt of Earth's axis as the Earth revolves around the sun. |
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| Where the sun's rays are the LEAST direct |
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| The climate zones lying between 23.5 degrees and 66.5 degrees North and South latitudes |
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| Where permafrost, mosses, lichens and wild flowers are commonly found |
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| Be able to Identify the symbols used on a weather map that represents |
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| a cold front and the direction it is moving, isotherm (equal temp.), a warm front and the direction it's moving, a stationary front, and an isobar (equal air pressure) |
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| The climate on the leeward side of the mountain differs from that on the windward side mostly in |
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