Civil Services Prep

Prelims MCQ · Geography

Consider the following statements:

  1. An air mass is a large body of air having little horizontal variation in temperature and moisture.
  2. A homogeneous surface over which an air mass develops is called its source region.
  3. Maritime tropical air masses develop over warm tropical and subtropical oceans.
  4. Continental polar air masses develop over permanently ice-covered continents in the Arctic and Antarctica.

Which of the statements given above are correct?

  1. 1 and 2 only.
  2. 1, 2 and 3 only.
  3. 2, 3 and 4 only.
  4. 1 and 4 only.
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