Air Temperature
Review Questions

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1. Describe the daily cycles of incoming and outgoing energy and itheir relation to the variation in air temperature.

2. What are the major controls on air temperature at a place?

3. Compare and contrast the heating and cooling characteristics of large bodies of water and nearby land.

4. Describe the spatial variation of annual temperature range as one travels across a midlatitude continent from the west coast to the east coast.

5. Describe the effect of air masses on air temperature at a place.

6. What is continentality and how does it affect air temperature?

7. Compare and contrast the shape and pattern of isotherms in the Northern and Southern Hemisphere.