Vocabulary - Weather
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STUDENT RESOURCE 8.1
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air mass a large body of air that has
occluded front where a warm air mass is
about the same temperature and
caught between two cold air masses
humidity throughout
An occluded front can bring strong
An air mass may be hundreds of
winds and heavy precipitation.
kilometers wide and 3 to 10 kilometers
stationary front the boundary between
high.
a cold and a warm air mass, neither of
cold front the leading edge of a moving
which has the power to move the other
mass of cooler air
The weather can stay the same for
A cold front may bring thunderstorms,
days along a stationary front.
followed by cool and clearing weather.
warm front the leading edge of a
front the boundary where two air masses
moving mass of warmer air
meet
Warm fronts bring precipitation,
Weather changes at fronts.
followed by milder weather.
WEATHER AND WATER • SECTION 8 AIR MASSES AND FRONTS
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