Precipitation
Changing State
Humidity
Air Rising
Air Masses, Fronts, and Storms
100
A Form of precipitation that has water droplets
What is Rain???
100
the change from a liquid to a gas state
What is Evaporation?
100
general term for the amount of water vapor in the air
What is Humidity
100
what is associated with air rising over mountains
What is Orographic Lifting
100
a boundary that separates two air masses of different properties
What is front
200
A type of precipitation that consists of small clear-to-translucent ice particles
What is sleet?
200
Change when a solid changes directly into a gas
What is Sublimination?
200
the ratio of the partial pressure of water vapor in the air-water mixture to the saturated vapor pressure of water at the prescribed temperature.
What is relative humidity?
200
When a cold air mass meets a warm air mass, the more dense cold air wedges or forces its way beneath the less dense warm air along a cold front.
What is Frontal Wedging
200
a storm that produces lightning and thunder, frequently produce gusty winds, heavy rain, and hail.
What is thunderstorm
300
Precipitation in the form of spherical or irregular pellets of ice larger than 5 millimeters (0.2 inches) in diameter.
What is Hail?
300
When a gas changes into a liquid state
What is Condensation?
300
device used to find air's humidity
What is a hygrometer?
300
When winds blowing from different directions meet and are unable to go anywhere but up
What is Convergence
300
a violent windstorm that take the form of a rotating column of air
What is a tornado
400
form of precipitation is likely to occur when a layer of air with temperatures above the freezing overlies is near the ground
What is Sleet
400
When a gas changes directly into a solid
What is Deposition?
400
device used to find relative humidity (dry and wet bulb)
What is Psychrometer
400
process that involves thermals and is associated with parking lots (unequal heating of Earth's surface
What is Localized Convective Lifting
500
A Cloud that is associated with precipitation and thunderstorms
What is Cumulonimbus?
500
What happens when so much water has condensed that the air cannot hold it anymore.
What is Precipitation?
500
when the dry bulb and wet bulb have a little difference in temp it means that there is a.......
What is a higher relative humidity?
500
Localized Convective Lifting is associated with these, rising pocking of air
What is Thermals
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