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1. What happens when different types of are air masses collide? 2. What are the boundaries of air mass called? 3. Define an air mass?
 * It is called a front when two different air masses collide
 * The boundaries are cold front and warm front
 * An air mass I a body of air with temperature

4. How large may an air mass be?as much as the space or shape it is in. 5. What does the term moist mean. It means slightly wet, or damp 6.If an air mass is humid what does that mean? that it is cold and warm after raining 7. Describe an air mass which forms over Canada in terms of its temperature and moisture.O ne that forms over the Indian ocean is called a maritime tropical air mass 8. Describe an air mass that forms over a desert in terms of its temperature and moisture.It is ever hot and humid plus there is ever little water in the desert 9. Describe an air mass that forms over water in Gulf of Mexico in terms of its temperature and moisture. Masses of air that travel south from the wide expanses of land in Canada, and north from the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
 * An air mass can be up to 1,000 miles it is usually in a large form
 * Moist means slightly damp
 * If an air mass is humid it means that it is going to be warm after it rains.
 * it would be cold and moist
 * it would be very hot and moist
 * it would be cool and very moist

11.In the area of the Unites states which way do warm air masses move?
 * down

12.Why are Canadian air masses considered to be dry air masses? it is ever hot over other in Canada
 * yes because it could be hot anywhere

13.What happens when a warm humid air mass meat a cold dry air mass? 14.Why can cold air masses from Canada make it all the way down to the Gulf of Mexico?it can't make it 15.What is a front
 * It makes a Columbus cloud. and forms a tornado
 * hurricane
 * a group of air

16.What typically happens when two different types of fronts collide? 17.What are the three types of fonts? 18.Descr.ibe the temperature of the air behind a cold front.