Winter Aria
These are the three main parts of the water cycle
What are evaporation, condensation, and precipitation?
Clouds form in this stage of the water cycle.
What is condensation?
The frozen types of precipitation are ___. The liquid types are ___
What are (Freezing rain, hail, sleet and snow) and (rain)
Relative humidity is measured with this instrument.
What is a psychrometer?
The dew point is the (temperature/altitude) at which (evaporation/condensation) will (begin/end).
What are temperature, condensation, and begin?
Finish the sentence from the book
"You probably know that snowflakes have an endless umber of shapes and patterns, many with ___ sides or branches."
What is 6?
Evaporation and condensation are opposites, changing between ___ and ___.
What are water vapor and water?
The lowest type of cloud is ___ and the highest is ___.
What are fog and cirrus?
Unnatural amounts of water on earth are classified as these.
What are floods and droughts?
When relative humidity is high, the water on the wet bulb ___ and the temperature shown ___.
What are slowly evaporates and does not change much?
The 3 types of particles on which clouds form are ___.
What are dust from soil, salt crystals, and smoke?
Mist droplets are 0.005-0.05 mm in diameter. Rain droplets are .5-5 mm in diameter. Therefore, rain droplets are ___ times larger than mist droplets.
What is 100?
If the total amount of water an area can hold is 500 grams, then ___ grams of water gives it a 74% humidity.
What is 370?
The 7 types of clouds in Figure 2 are __________________________________.
What are cirrus, cirrocumulus, cumulus, altocumulus, stratus, altostratus, nimbostratus, and fog?
Deposition, the direct changing of gas to solid, is used in the making of this type of precipitation.
What is snow?