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When two air masses meet and neither is displaced, what kind of front is present?
cold |
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stationary |
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warm |
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occluded |
When two air masses meet and neither is displaced, a stationary front is created. Stationary fronts often cause persistent cloudy wet weather.
When the clouds become too saturated with water, the water is released as precipitation in the form of:
snow or ice |
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rain |
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snow |
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ice |
Rising into the atmosphere, the water condenses into clouds. When the clouds become too saturated with water, the water is released as snow or ice precipitation which may warm as it falls to reach Earth as rain.
This skeletal system is common in arthropods like insects, spiders, and crustaceans.
vertebrate |
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bone |
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exoskeleton |
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endoskeleton |
An exoskeleton (external skeleton) is common in arthropods like insects, spiders, and crustaceans.
The connective tissue that connects bones to other bones at joints is called:
knuckles |
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cartilage |
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tendons |
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ligaments |
Tough fibrous cords of connective tissue called tendons connect muscles to the skeleton while another type of connective tissue called ligaments connect bones to other bones at joints (elbow, knee, fingers, spinal column).
A subatomic particle that orbits the nucleus of an atom. It carries a negative electric charge. This desribes which of the following?
electron |
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isotope |
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neutron |
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proton |
An electron is a subatomic particle that orbits the nucleus of an atom. It carries a negative electric charge. Generally, an atom has the same number of negative electrons orbiting the nucleus as it does positive protons inside.