Cloud Formation
Precipitation
Phases
Water
Cloud Shapes
100
Water droplets or ice crystals that have coalesced or sublimated around a particle of dust or some other condensation nucleus in the atmosphere.
What are clouds?
100
Three types of solid precipitation.
What are snow, sleet, and hail?
100
Water enters the atmosphere from the ocean as it changes from ____ to ____.
What is liquid to gas?
100
The way water cannot enter the atmosphere.
What is condensation?
100
Three basic cloud shapes
What is stratus, cumulus, and cirrus
200
Caused when a humid air mass is lifted higher into the atmosphere, and at some point it begins to form clouds as its water vapor condenses.
What is adiabatic cooling?
200
The cloud formation process that causes most brief showers or thunderstorms that occur in the summertime.
What is convection?
200
The temperature at which the relative humidity is equal to 100 percent.
What is dew point?
200
Liquid water below the freezing point of water.
What is supercooled water?
200
The typical shape of the top of a cumulonimbus cloud.
What is anvil-shaped?
300
Type of cloud formation associated with rain shadows.
What is orographic lifting?
300
pH of natural, unpolluted rainwater.
What is slightly acidic?
300
Change of state that causes cooling to the surroundings.
What is evaporation?
300
Icicles disappear in the spring as water changes from ______ to ______.
What is solid to liquid?
300
Type of clouds in which hail usually forms.
What is cumulonimbus?
400
Process by which clouds are formed by winds flowing from different directions that come together in an area to force air masses aloft.
What is convergence?
400
Snow forms when water vapor in the atmosphere _______.
What is sublimes or sublimates?
400
Two ways in which water leaves the atmosphere
What is condensation, sublimation, or precipitation?
400
Wind and low humidity speed up the process of water changing from _______ to ________.
What is liquid to gas?
400
High altitude, wispy clouds, sometimes called mare's tails.
What is cirrus?
500
The process by which large cloud droplets begin to fall and collect other cloud droplets.
What is coalescence?
500
The area where sleet forms.
What is between the cloud and the ground?
500
Hail is formed as water changes from _________ to _______.
What is liquid to solid?
500
Frost forms on blades of grass as water changes from _____ to ______.
What is gas to solid?
500
Lower to middle-level billowy clouds that are dark on the bottom.
What is stratocumulus?
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