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jjjetplane

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Why is mountainous terrain a poor source region for air masses?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

List two main characteristics of air mass source regions.
 
  What will be an ideal response?


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Reply #1 on: Jul 14, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Answer: Mountainous regions have too much local and large-scale variation of temperature and moisture.

Answer to Question 2

Answer: (i) tend to occur in high and low latitudes where the conditions of temperature and moisture are not highly variable.
(ii) the source region must be large.


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Reply 2 on: Jul 14, 2018
:D TYSM

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Great answer, keep it coming :)

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