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Continental Polar
Continental Arctic
Maritime Polar
Maritime Tropical
Continental Tropical
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Symbol for Continental Polar
What is cP
100
Symbol for Continental Arctic
What is cA
100
Symbol for Maritime Polar
What is mP
100
Symbol for Maritime Tropical
What is mT
100
Symbol for Continental Tropical
What is cT
200
Characteristics of Continental Polar
What is Cold, dry
200
Characteristics of Continental Arctic
What is very cold, dry
200
Characteristics of Maritime polar
What is cool, moist
200
Characteristics of maritime tropical
What is warm, moist
200
Characteristics of Continental Tropical
What is hot and dry
300
Source region for cP
What is Canada & Alaska
300
Source region for cA
What is Northern Canada & Arctic Circle
300
Source region for mP
What is Ocean near Asia
300
Source region for mT
What is Gulf of Mexico, Western Atlantic, Tropical East Pacific
300
Source region for cT
What is Mexican Plateau and desert Southwest
400
cP and cA can have this effect on Florida
What is freeze crops or create a frost
400
Name of the snow formed from cA- Hint: It makes Buffalo, NY one of the snowiest cities in the US
What is Lake Effect Snow
400
Name a city affected by mP
What is Seattle?
400
mT provides this throughout the year for the east coast
What is moisture for the east coast
400
Boundary between cT and mT
What is a dryline
500
Air mass is named
What is from source region (moisture content and temperature)
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An air mass is at least this big
What is 1000 square km or square miles
500
Source regions must have these characteristics
What is flat and similar moisture and temperature throughout
500
Air masses are important to study because
What is they help predict weather
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cP and cA never pass these mountains
What is the Rockies