Direct Reading air Mass

Question 1

The region along where receives more solar energy in the polar regions do?

Answer 1

Equator

Question 2

Heated equatorial Air rises and creates a center of?

Answer 2

Low pressure

Question 3

Cold Air near the poles sink in create centers of?

Answer 3

High pressure

Question 4

Air moves from?

Answer 4

Areas of high-pressure to areas of low pressure

Question 5

There is a general worldwide movement of air from?

Answer 5

Poles towards the equator

Question 6

What happens to the air when the air pressure differences are small

Answer 6

The Air remains stationary. If the air remains stationary or moves slowly over a uniform region, it takes on the characteristic temperature and humidity of that region.

Question 7

What is an Air mass?

Answer 7

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

Question 8

What are the characteristics of air masses that form over polar regions

Answer 8

They are very cold and dry

Question 9

What are the Characteristics of air masses that form over tropical oceans

Answer 9

They are warm and moist

Question 10

Differences are caused by equal unheating of earths surface is by what?

Answer 10

Air pressure