Water in the Atmosphere
Cloud Formation
Cloud Types and Precipitation
Understading Air Pressure
Pressure Centers and Wind
100
What is dry adiabatic rate?
What is the ratio of cooling or heating that applies only to unsaturated air.
100
What is a cirrus cloud?
What is a curl of hair/ white and thin.
100
What is air pressure?
What is pressure exerted by the weight of air.
100
Cyclones are the center of what type of pressure?
What is low pressure.
200
What is a sublimation?
What is the conversion of a solid directly to a gas without passing throught the liquid state.
200
What is wet adiabatic rate?
What is the rate of adiabatic temp. change in saturated air.
200
What is a cumulus cloud?
What is a pile/ rounded individual cloud.
200
What is a pressure gradient?
What is the amount of pressure change occurring over a given distance.
200
What type of cyclone is the center of high pressure?
What is Anticyclones.
300
What is deposition?
What is the conversion of a vapor directly to a solid.
300
When does orographic lifting occur?
What is when the mountains act as barriers to the flow of air, forcing the air to rise.
300
What is fog?
What is a cloud with its base at or very near the ground.
300
What is a closely spaced isobars?
What is the lines on a map that connect places of equal air pressure.
300
What type of weather can low pressure center cost?
What is bad wheather.
400
What is humidity?
What is the general term for the amount of water vapor in the air.
400
How is air stability determined?
What is by measuring the temp. of the atmosphere at various heights.
400
How is fog caused?
What is by evapoation.
400
What is a widely spaced isobars?
What is to indicate a weak pressure gradient and light winds.
400
Why was El Ninos name given?
Given to periodic warming of the ocean that occurs in the central and eastern pacific.
500
What is a dew point?
What is the temperature to which a parcel of air would need to be cooled to reach saturation.
500
Four mechanisms that can cause air to rise are?
What is orographic lifting, frontal wedging, convergence, and localized convective lifting.
500
What is the bergeron process?
What is ice crystals grow at the expense of cloud droplets until they are large enough to fall.
500
What does the coridis effect?
It describes how earths rotationn affects moving objects.
500
What can a major El Nino episode cause?
What is extreme weather.
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