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The position of the polar jet stream is usually somewhere between

Southern Canada and Mexico

What is thought to have caused the ice ages

Earth's Precession

Ocean and wind currents are both caused by

uneven insolation

What kind of air would be characteristic of a maritime tropical air mass

Warm, humid

The property of water that causes it to moderate the climate around lakes is its

heat capacity

Clouds form when water vapor in the atmosphere cools to

Its Dew Point

More rain generally falls on the what side of a mountain range

More rain generally falls on the windward side of a mountain range. This is because the air is being forced upward, where the water vapor cools and falls as rain.

What does the L symbol indicate on a weather map

What does this symbol indicate on a weather map?

low pressure

The method is forecasting method based on the idea that the weather on any day will not change much from day before it

Persistence

When a cold air mass catches up to a warm air mass its called a what

When a cold FRONT catches up to a warm FRONT it is called an occluded front.

When a cold AIR MASS displaces a warmer AIR MASS it is a cold front.
Occluded front

What condition is required for all thunderstorms

For starters, the thing you will need for all storms is Low Air Pressure. So you will always need this for all thunderstorms.

What planet in our solar system features the runaway greenhouse effect

venus

as a result of the coriolis effect an air mass moving from the north pole toward the equator will

Turn towards the right

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