FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT CHAPTER 21 EXAM

PDF Download

FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT CHAPTER 21 EXAM

QUESTIONS

Actual Qs and Ans Expert-Verified Explanation

This Exam contains:

-Guarantee passing score -79 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation

Question 1: The source regions for cold air masses are ____ areas

Answer:

polar areas

Question 2: What weather does the cT air masses bring

Answer:

warm and dry Question 3: the cT (continental tropical) air masses come from what source locations

Answer:

U.S. southwest

Question 4: The heated equatorial air rises and creates what?

Answer:

a low pressure center

Question 5: How does air move?

Answer:

from areas of high pressure to areas of low pressure

Question 6: What is the symbol used to mean Polar air masses

Answer:

P (capital P) Question 7: the mT (maritime tropical) air masses come from what source locations

Answer:

tropical Pacific and tropical atlantic Question 8: In the summer Maritime tropical air masses bring what type of weather

Answer:

hot humid weather and thunderstorms

Question 9: Where do Maritime polar air masses form

Answer:

over the North Pacific Ocean Question 10: If air moves from high pressure to low pressure how does air move (use equator and poles in the answer)

Answer:

in general, surface air moves from the poles the the equator

Question 11: How are air masses classified?

Answer:

according to their source regions

Question 12: why does air move from the poles to the equator

Answer:

air moves from high pressure (poles) to low pressure (equator)

Question 13: Maritime tropical air masses form over what three bodies of water?

Answer:

• warm water of the tropical Atlantic ocean
• Caribbean Sea
• Gulf of Mexico

Question 14: Maritime polar Atlantic air masses usually move _______ toward ________

Answer:

Eastward; Europe (sometimes they can move west toward U.S. East coast Question 15: the continental tropical air masses bring what type of weather in the summer

Answer:

dry hot weather

Question 16: What type of weather does the mT air masses bring

Answer:

warm and moist

Question 17: When does the Coriolis effect occur?

Answer:

when winds are deflected by Earth's rotation

Question 18: maritime tropical air masses are what?

Answer:

moist and warm Question 19: Air masses will eventually move into other regions because of what?

Answer:

global wind patterns Question 20: In the winter the continental polar air masses bring what type of weather

Answer:

very cold weather to the northern united states

Question 21: Continental tropical air masses are what

Answer:

warm and dry

Question 22: Describe the weather the Maritime polar air masses bring

Answer:

summer - very moist cool foggy weather winter - bring rain and snow to the pacific coast

Question 23: Continental polar air masses form over what type of land

Answer:

ice and snow-covered land Question 24: What receives more solar energy, the region by the equator or the region by the poles?

Answer:

the region along the equator

Question 25: The processes that affect air movement also influence what?

Answer:

storms

Question 26: What are the two types of maritime air masses?

Answer:

• maritime polar (mP)
• maritime tropical (mT)

Question 27: A What is the definition of air mass?

Answer:

a large body of air throughout which temperature and moisture content are similar

Question 28: maritime air masses take on the characteristics of what?

Answer:

the water over which they form