Air Masses and Front

Air mass is...

• a body of air with horizontally uniform temperature, humidity, and pressure.
• Heavy air
•  The airs weight
• Stuff in the air

A _______ is formed when cold and hot air mass meet?

• Air mass
• Front
• Tornado
• Heating on the surface of the earth

What is a source region?

• A front.
• A different name for air mass.
• An area where gravity is greater than anywhere else
• Geographic areas where an air mass originates.

What is NOT a reason for why there is weather?

• Heating of the lower atmosphere by energy transfer from the surface
• Because the earth is round
• Contrasting heating of the surface of the earth.
• The phases of the moon is in

What is a tropical latitude?

• A general air mass located over the oceans.
• A general air mass located within about 25 degrees of the equator?
• A general air mass located poleward
• A general air mass located over large land masses

Latitudes of the polar region are represented by what letter?

• PR
• P
• p
• Pr

what are the two fundamental assertions of weather?

• rain and snow
• weather and the coriolis
• air mass and fronts 
• radiation and convection

Where do air masses collide?

• The equator
• North Pole
• South Pole
• All over the world

Why is there different types of weather around the earth?

• Because of global warming
• The different heating around the earth from the sun
• The low atmosphere
• The people around earth create body heat and it warms up different areas

Where is the polar, tropical , continental, and marine latitudes located? 

• 60 degrees north and south, within 25 degrees of the equator, over large air  areas on land, and over oceans
• within 25 degrees of the equator, in the tropical area of the earth, on continents, and in waves
• In icy areas, in warm areas, on land, and in oceans
• On polar areas, in the rain forest, in oceans, and in lakes