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What winds move air masses in the U'S?
Continental polar
What are the major types of air masses in North America and how do they move?
There are 4 types of air masses in North America: maritime tropical, maritime polar, continental tropical, and continental polar. In the continental United States, air masses are moved by the prevailing westerlies and the jet streams.
What kind of air would be characteristic of a continental polar air mass?
Continental polar masses are cold and dry air masses because the cold air cannot hold much moisture. As they move into warmer air, they can trigger precipitation.
Wegener's theory of what says that land masses move slowly?
Continental drift
What air masses generally move eastward toward Europe?
maritime polar alantic
What directions would polar and tropical air masses move in the southern hemisphere?
in the south, tropical air masses would be moving north or upwards. polar air mass would be moving sideways or west.
When large land masses move slowly over long periods of time it is referred to as continental?
glaciers
What is large land masses that move slowly over long perionds of time reffered to as continental?
I believe you are asking about Continental drift. See related link.
Which geographic area is a common source for cap air masses that move into New Jersey?
The North American Interior.
Continental Tropical air masses centered over northern Mexico have little influence on weather in the United States because they?
Really move outside their source region
What is a warm air mass and cold air mass meet and neither one is strong enough to move the other what type of front results?
continental polar
What is it called when land masses move on the earth surface?
Land masses move when their underlying plates move simply because they are resting on top of the plates. This is similar to how if someone is resting on a raft the current of the water will carry them along.
