When wind encounters a mountain and the air has no place to go but up?
What is Cloud Formation
100
all forms of water, both liquid and solid, that fall from clouds?
What is Precipitation
100
theres more then 97% of Earths water?
What is the percentage of salt water on Earth?
200
what determines clouds stability?
What is how fast any mass of air cools
200
the outcome of a process called coalescence?
What is Water droplets collide
200
the water cycle?
What is The constant movement of water between the atmosphere and Earths surface?
300
when latent heat is released and warms the air?
What is Condensation
300
when precipitation takes the form of the ice crystals or snow?
What is A variation of precipitation
300
Evaportaion?
What is The process of water changing from a liquid to a gas is called?
400
water vapor when it condenses into droplets of liquid water or ice depending on the temperature?When a mass of rising air reaches its lifted condensation level
What is When a mass of rising air reaches its lifted condensation level
400
a system developed by naturalist Luke Howard in 1803 to classify clouds
What is Lukes development system to classify clouds?
400
The third step of the water cycle
What is In what step of the water cycle do water droplets combine to form larger droplets that finally fall to Earth as Precipitation?
500
happening when the cloud is warmer then the surface or surrounding air and continues to grow?
What is The making of unstable cumulus clouds.
500
its when clouds flatten out and winds will spread it horizontally into strato cumulus or layered cumulus clouds
What is What would happen if the air in the cloud does not stay warm that its sorrounding air?
500
two thirds of frozen water?
What is the fraction from 3% of freshwater on earth frozen in ice caps?