Saturated air is said to have a relative humidity of ____%
What is 100%
100
A visible mixture of tiny water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the air is known as?
What is a cloud?
100
The prefix used to describe the height of a middle level cloud is:
What is Alto-
100
Rain, snow, sleet or hail that falls from clouds to the earth.
What is precipitation?
100
Process by which molecules of water vapor become liquid water.
What is condensation.
200
Term used to describe when a temperature cools enough for condensation to begin
What is dew point?
200
A device consisting of two thermometers (wet bulb and dry bulb) that is rapidly whirled and, with the use of tables, yields the relative humidity and dew point.
What is a psychrometer?
200
Name a cloud that forms high in the atmosphere.
What is cirrus, cirrocumulus, or cirrostratus
200
Ice that has been deposited directly from the air onto a cold surface.
What is frost?
200
The process of converting a liquid to a gas.
What is evaporation?
300
A sling psychrometer works on the principle that _______ is a cooling process.
What is evaporation
300
The classification of clouds is based on their: (2 things)
What is form & height
300
What would you name a sheet-like, cloud that covers most of the sky.
What is stratus.
300
Nearly spherical ice pellets having concentric layers and formed by the successive freezing of layers of waters.
What is hail.
300
The conversion of a solid directly to a gas without passing through the liquid state.
What is sublimation?
400
The ratio of the air's water-vapor content to its water-vapor capacity.
What is relative humidity?
400
The process which produces rising air when mountains push the air upward is known as
What is orographic lifiting
400
Severe thunderstorms capable of producing hail and tornadoes, often occur in this type of cloud.
What is cumulonimbus
400
When a layer of air with temperatures above freezing sits above a layer or subfreezing air near the ground, this type of precipitation will likely form.
What is sleet.
400
The energy absorbed or released during a change in state.
What is latent heat?
500
As water evaporates off the wet bulb thermometer, the temperature does this.
What is decreases?
500
The small particles in the atmosphere, around which cloud droplets can form, are called:
What is condensation nuclei
500
A cloud with its base at or very near Earth's surface.
What is fog?
500
The tool which uses a funnel to collect and conduct rain is known as a
What is a rain gauge.
500
The process by which water vapor is changed directly to a solid without passing through the liquid state.