Clouds
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RH, WC & HI
Vocabulary
Miscellaneous
100
This cloud is fog.
What is stratus?
100
This is a low altitude gray layered cloud.
What is Stratus?
100
This is the relative humidity of air that can hold 50 grams of water and is currently holding 10 grams.
What is 20%?
100
This is the amount of water vapor in the air.
What is humidity?
100
The process by which a liquid chages into a gas.
What is Evaporation?
200
A middle altitude cloud with white puffy appearance.
What is Altocumulus?
200
This is a low altitude cloud that is gray and layered and precipitating.
What is Nimbostratus?
200
This is the relative humidity of air that can hold 32 grams of water and is currently holding 24 grams.
What is 75%?
200
Any form of water that falls to Earth's surface.
What is Precipitation?
200
The process by which a gas changes into a liquid.
What is Condensation?
300
This cloud starts in the low altitude and grows to high altitude. It can produce hail, high winds, precipitation, lighting and possible tornados.
What is a Cumulonimbus?
300
This cloud is low altitude with a gray layered bottom and a top that is white and puffy and can have weak precipitation.
What is Stratocumulus?
300
This is caused by too much evaporation from the skin.
What is Wind Chill?
300
A comparison of the amount of water vapor in air with the maximum amount of water vapor that can be present at that temperature.
What is Relative Humidity?
300
These form when air rises and condenses.
What is a Cloud?
400
This cloud makes a 'halo' effect around the sun.
What is Cirrostratus?
400
This cloud brings wind and predicts rain in 6-24 hours.
What is Cirrus?
400
This is caused by not enough evaporation from skin.
What is Heat Index?
400
A condition in which the rates of evaporation and condensation in the air are equal.
What is Saturation?
400
A cloud that forms at low or middle altitude is made of these.
What is Water Droplets?
500
This is a man-made cloud that can be short-lived or long-lived.
What is a Contrail?
500
This cloud is referred to as a Thunderhead.
What is Cumulonimbus?
500
This is the apparent temperature when the relative humidity is 100% and the temperature is 100 F.
What is 195 F?
500
The temperature at which air with a given amount of water vapor will reach saturation.
What is Dew Point?
500
A cloud that forms at high altitude is made of these.
What is Ice Crystals?
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