Presipitaion Clouds

Question 0

The process by which water vapor changes directly to a solid is called

Answer 0

Deposition

Question 1

What is true about warm saturated air

Answer 1

It contains more water vapor than cold air

Question 2

What term refers to the energy that is stored or released during a change of state of water

Answer 2

Latent heat

Question 3

The change of state from a gas to a liqued is called

Answer 3

Condensation

Question 4

What causes air to become unstable

Answer 4

Intense solar heating that warms air below
Forceful lifting of air
Upward movement caused by convergence

Question 5

Cool air acts as a barrier over which warmer less sense air roses in a process known as

Answer 5

Frontal wedging

Question 6

Air that has reached it’s water vapor content to its capacity is said to be

Answer 6

Saturated

Question 7

Which gas is most important for understanding atmospheric processes?

Answer 7

Water vapor

Question 8

Which teen refers to the temperature to which air would have to be cooled to reach saturation

Answer 8

Dew point

Question 9

The ratio of air water vapor content to its capacity to hold water vapor at the same temperature is the

Answer 9

Relative humidity

Question 10

What are the processes that lift air

Answer 10

Orographix
Frontal
Convergence

Question 11

Condensation nuclei

Answer 11

Dust smoke salt particles

Question 12

Which valid type is best described as sheet or layer that cover much of all of the sky

Answer 12

Stratus

Question 13

Dry adiabatic rate

Answer 13

10/1000

Question 14

Conditions are associated with stable atmospheric condition

Answer 14

Widespread fog
Temp inversion
Dearly overcast with light drizzle

Question 15

When air is compressed

Answer 15

Air temp rises

Question 16

When air expands or contracts what type if temp change does it experience

Answer 16

Adiabatic

Question 17

Which term is used To describe clouds of middle height

Answer 17

Altostratus

Question 18

Orthographic lifting is associated with

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Mountains

Question 19

Means rainy clouds

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Nimbus

Question 20

A low cloud that blankets the sky and often generates precious toon is called a

Answer 20

Nimbostratus

Question 21

True about stable air

Answer 21

Tends to resist rising

Question 22

Cloud type consists of globular cloud masses with a cauliflower structure

Answer 22

Cumulus

Question 23

Water vapor makes up what fraction of atmospheric gases

Answer 23

0-4

Question 24

Process if converting a liquid to a gas

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Condensation

Question 25

Conversion of a solid directly to a gas without passing through the liquid state

Answer 25

Sublimation

Question 26

Clouds associated with thunder and lightning

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Cumulonimbus

Question 27

2 temp read nearly the same in a psychrometer you can conclude that the air has a high

Answer 27

Relative humidity

Question 28

If the water vapor content of air remains kc sent lowering air temp causes relative humidity to

Answer 28

Increase

Question 29

Compared to clouds fig are

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Lower altitudes