Question

Study the image of an air mass. A cold air mass is moving south from Canada into the United States. Which major type of air mass is moving into the area? maritime polar continental polar maritime tropical continental tropical

Answer 1

Answer: The large air mass that is moving into the area is a continental polar one. As we can see on the map, the air mass is moving in from the northern part of North America toward the Central part of North America. It is an air mass that has been formed over land, thus it is a continental one, and since it has been formed on a very high latitude it is a polar one too. This type of air mass brings in very cold weather, often resulting in large amounts of snowfall as well, thus it is causing severe snow storms.

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Answer 2

The large air mass that is moving into the area is a continental polar one.

Explanation:

• This type of air mass brings in very cold weather often resulting in large amounts of snowfall as well thus it is causing severe snow storms.
• Any dry air mass is going to be Continental.
• For the most part only arctic air masses only make it out of canada in the coldest part of winter and usually only to central northern states like north dakota.