Slide 1mP maritime Polar (cold)
cT continental (dry) Tropical
cP continental Polar
2. What type of air mass effects a tropical rain forest?
mT mP cT cP Location: close to equator Moisture: > 250 cm/yr
Places like the Amazon River basin in South America
mT
What type of air mass effects a tropical desert?
mT mP cT cP Location: 20° - 30° latitude Moisture: 25 cm/yr
Places like the Sahara and northern Mexico
cT
What type of air mass effects a tropical savanna climate zone?
mT mP cT cP Location: 20° - 30° latitude Moisture: wet summers & dry winters
Places that border the rain forests in South America & Africa, also northern Australia
What type of air mass effects a subarctic climate?
mT mP cT cP Location: 35° - 50° north latitude
(no land at this latitude in the southern hemisphere!)
Moisture: 25-50 cm/yr
Places like Alaska
What type of air mass effects a tundra climate zone?
mT mP cT cP Location: 55°+ latitude Moisture: 25 cm/yr
Places like northern Alaska
What type of air mass effects a marine west-coast climate zone?
mT mP cT cP Location: 40° - 60° latitude Moisture: 60-150 cm/yr
Places like the coastal areas of California, Oregon and Washington.
What type of air mass effects a Mediterranean climate zone?
mT mP cT cP Location: 30° - 40° latitude Moisture: 40 cm/yr (all during winter)
Places like central and southern California
What type of air mass effects a middle latitude desert and steppe climate zone?
mT mP cT cP Location: 35° - 50° latitude Moisture: >25 cm/yr
Places that are high plains (over 4,000 ft) like western South Dakota, Wyoming & Montana
What type of air mass effects a humid continental climate zone?
mT mP cT cP Location: Kansas to ND to Maine Moisture: >75 cm/yr
Places like Iowa
What type of air mass effects a humid subtropical climate zone?
mT mP cT cP Location: Oklahoma to DC and south Moisture: 75 - 165 cm/yr
Places like the Ozarks and the Everglades
What type of air mass effects a tropical savanna climate zone?
mT mP cT cP Location: 20° - 30° latitude Moisture: wet summers & dry winters
Places that border the rain forests in South America & Africa, also northern Australia
mT cP
Moisture: 25-50 cm/yr
Places like Alaska
What type of air mass effects a tundra climate zone?
mT mP cT cP Location: 55°+ latitude Moisture: 25 cm/yr
Places like northern Alaska
cP
What type of air mass effects a marine west-coast climate zone?
mT mP cT cP Location: 40° - 60° latitude Moisture: 60-150 cm/yr
Places like the coastal areas of California, Oregon and Washington.
mP
What type of air mass effects a Mediterranean climate zone?
mT mP cT cP Location: 30° - 40° latitude Moisture: 40 cm/yr (all during winter)
Places like central and southern California
mT cT
What type of air mass effects a middle latitude desert and steppe climate zone?
mT mP cT cP Location: 35° - 50° latitude Moisture: >25 cm/yr
Places that are high plains (over 4,000 ft) like western South Dakota, Wyoming & Montana
cT cP
What type of air mass effects a humid continental climate zone?
mT mP cT cP Location: Kansas to ND to Maine Moisture: >75 cm/yr
Places like Iowa
mT cP
What type of air mass effects a humid subtropical climate zone?
mT mP cT cP Location: Oklahoma to DC and south Moisture: 75 - 165 cm/yr
Places like the Ozarks and the Everglades
mT cP
# 3 Draw in the average daily temperatures from page 524
# 4 What is the temperature in northern Alaska in January or July?
(C * 1.8) + 32 = F
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