Atmospheric moisture

Question 1

What is not true about the hydrologic cycle?

Answer 1

Water is interchanged only in its liquid state

Question 2

What is the characteristic of water molecules that gives water “sticky” quality?

Answer 2

Hydrogen bonds

Question 3

What is the process by which water travels upward through small crevasses?

Answer 3

capillarity

Question 4

Which property of water means it can physically break apart rock as mechanical weathering?

Answer 4

Ice expansion

Question 5

What is the phase change in which water changes from a solid to a gas?

Answer 5

Sublimation

Question 6

What is true about waters phase changes and latent heat?

Answer 6

When water melts, latent heat is absorbed

Question 7

Under which conditions would evaporation take place at the quickest rate?

Answer 7

Warm air over warm water

Question 8

What is not true about evapotranspiration?

Answer 8

It involves the return of water to the land surface?

Question 9

What occurs when water molecules in the air exert the maximum possible pressure at at given temperature?

Answer 9

Saturation

Question 10

What is specific humidity?

Answer 10

Mass of water in a given mass of air

Question 11

Which measure of humidity describes how close the air is to saturation with water vapor?

Answer 11

Relative humidity

Question 12

What is the main determinant for airs water vapor capacity?

Answer 12

Temperature

Question 13

What is the dew point temp?

Answer 13

Temp air must reach to saturate

Question 14

What is the most common way air becomes saturated so that condensation occurs?

Answer 14

Water vapor is cooled below the dew point

Question 15

What are the hygroscopic particles necessary for the formation of clouds and rain?

Answer 15

Condensation nuclei

Question 16

What occurs when air is at max vapor pressure, cooling continues with no condensation nuclei and temp stays above freezing?

Answer 16

Air reaches supersaturation

Question 17

What is not true about the dry adiabatic rate?

Answer 17

Air must be completely dry

Question 18

What marks the transition between the dry adiabatic rate and the saturated adiabatic rate?

Answer 18

Environmental lapse rate

Question 19

What is not true about the saturated adiabatic rate?

Answer 19

Cooling is faster that in unsaturated air

Question 20

What will be the new temp of dry air that started at 25 c and was lifted 1 km

Answer 20

15 c

Question 21

Which type of cloud is shown 1.

Answer 21

Cirrus

Question 22

Which cloud is shown 2.

Answer 22

Nimbostratus

Question 23

What is fog that forms when warm air passes over a cool surface, cooling to the dew point

Answer 23

Advection fog

Question 24

What forms dew?

Answer 24

Nighttime air that is cooled by conduction

Question 25

If a parcel of air is warmer than the surrounding air, what happens?

Answer 25

It will continue to rise

Question 26

What describes stable air?

Answer 26

A parcel that resists uplift

Question 27

What is conditionally unstable air?

Answer 27

Stable air that lifts and then becomes unstable

Question 28

Which type of precipitation process is dominant in high altitude clouds outside of the tropics?

Answer 28

ice crystal formation

Question 29

What is the main reaction precipitation forms on the windward side?

Answer 29

Orographic lifting

Question 30

What type of atmospheric lifting process is started by the unequal heating of different surface areas?

Answer 30

Convective

Question 31

What is not true about the global distribution of precipitation?

Answer 31

Polar areas tend to have higher precipitation