Clouds, Chapter 3

Question 1

What is water vapor?

Answer 1

Water in its gaseous state

Question 2

How do clouds form?

Answer 2

Water vapor condensed into tiny water droplets around small particles. Warm air is forced upward, expands, and cools

Question 3

What are ice crystals?

Answer 3

Frozen water droplets

Question 4

How are ice crystals made?

Answer 4

Water frozen on particles of dust. Forms in the high atmosphere.

Question 5

What type of cloud is a cumulus cloud

Answer 5

Fluffy white cloud

Question 6

Where do cumulus clouds form?

Answer 6

High in the atmosphere

Question 7

What type of cloud is a stratus cloud?

Answer 7

layers of smooth sheets of clouds with low altitude

Question 8

Where are stratus clouds formed?

Answer 8

In fair weather

Question 9

,What type of clouds is a cirrus cloud?

Answer 9

Appear fibrous or curly
Thin,White, feathery
Made of ice crystals

Question 10

How do cirrus clouds form?

Answer 10

Fair weather or approaching storms

Question 11

How are clouds classified?

Answer 11

Shape,Height,Temperature,Pressure

Question 12

What prefixes are used to describe cloud height?

Answer 12

Cirro/High
Alto/Middle
Strato/Low

Question 13

What does the term nimbus mean?

Answer 13

Rain or snow cloud

Question 14

What is dew point?

Answer 14

Temp air needs to be cooled in order to become saturated with water vapor

Question 15

What is evaporation?

Answer 15

Sun heaters up and collects water. Turners into steam, goes into the atmosphere

Question 16

What is precipitation?

Answer 16

Form of water that falls to the earths surface when clouds get to heavy.

Question 17

What is fog?

Answer 17

Form of water that falls to the earths surface when cloud gets to heavy.

Question 18

What i relative humidity?

Answer 18

Tells us how much water vapor is in the air

Question 19

How do molecules in hot water move compared to cold water?

Answer 19

Move faster

Question 20

What is collection?

Answer 20

When precipitation falls to a place and it starts to collect

Question 21

What is condensation?

Answer 21

How clouds form

Question 22

What are the 5 climate systems?

Answer 22

Atmosphere, Lithosphere, Cryosphere, Biosphere, Hydrosphere

Question 23

Why are the poles closer then the equator?

Answer 23

The poles are farther away from the un

Question 24

What is acid rain?

Answer 24

Polluted precipitation

Question 25

What is transperation?

Answer 25

Evaporation of water from plants