Air Masses Key Questions 1.What are air masses? 2.How do air masses affect weather? 3.What are the...

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Air Masses Key Questions 1. What are air masses? 2. How do air masses affect weather? 3. What are the types of air masses? 4. What air masses affect North America? 5. Which type of air mass most influences Georgia’s weather?

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Do Now 3/11/14 Draw and label the layers of the soil profile.

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Air Masses Key Questions1. What are air masses?

2. How do air masses affect weather?

3. What are the types of air masses?

4. What air masses affect North America?

5. Which type of air mass most influences Georgia’s weather?

Do Now 3/12/141. When the ground becomes __________ no

more percolation will occur.

2. Crystal size is determined by the cooling rate of ___________ rocks.

3. The transfer of heat by waves is called _________.

4. Convection currents occur in the mantle in the section called ____________.

Do Now 3/11/14

• Draw and label the layers of the soil profile.

3. What are the types of air masses?

• Maritime - forms over the ocean and are wet.

3. What are the types of air masses? Continued…

• Continental - forms over the continents and are dry.

3. What are the types of air masses?

• Polar - forms over the poles and are cold.

3. What are the types of air masses?

• Tropical - forms near the equator and is warm.

• cP = continental polar - dry and cold • cT = continental tropical - dry and warm• mT = maritime tropical - wet and warm• mP = maritime polar - wet and cold

4. What are the air masses that affect North America?

5. Which type of air mass most influences Georgia’s weather?

• Maritime tropical