Air
Masses
Masses
This letter is the abbreviation for Continental when discussing types of Air Masses.
What is c, as in "cP"?
What is Yakima or Spokane?
This is not what you expect but what you get.
What is weather?
What is a sea breeze?
Horizontal lines dividing earth into sections.
What is latitude?
A oceanic cold origination.
Where does a maritime polar air mass come from?
The side of a mountain that experiences more rain.
What is the windward side?
This is not what you get but what you expect.
What is climate?
An air mass that is sinking.
What is a cold air mass?
A hot climate full of moisture.
The continental tropical (cT) air masses humidity and temperature.
What is an air mass of low humidity and high temeprature?
This describes the direction from which a wind is blowing.
What is prevailing wind?
Climate is observed and determined over a period of this many years.
What is 30 years?
The heat transfer process caused by the cycle of warm air rising and cold air sinking.
What is convection?
The climate with the coldest temperatures.
What is the polar climate?
mT
What is the symbol for a maritime tropical air mass?
What is the leeward side of a mountain?
This layer of the atmosphere is where 90% of all weather occurs.
What is the troposphere?
An air mass that rises and expands.
What is a warm light air mass?
A climate that experiences dry summers and wet winters.
What is the subtropical climate?
A warm piece of land.
Where the Continental Tropical air mass originates from?
A famous desert created by a rainshadow.
This climate band includes very little precipitation and very cold temperatures.
What is the Polar latitudes?
Hot air rising up causes this in the atmosphere.
What is low air pressure?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: the name and location of the most current devastating hurricane.
What is hurricane Ian in Florida?