Vocabulary
The change of state from a gas to a liquid is called ____.
What is condensation?
Which of the following refers to the temperature to which air would have to be cooled to reach saturation?
What is the dew point.
Which cloud type is best described as sheets or layers that cover much or all of the sky?
What is stratus
Which gas is most important for understanding atmospheric processes?
What is water vapor
Which of the following occurs when air is compressed?
a. air temp rises
b. air temp cools
c. air molecules move faster
d. both a and c
What is letter d
Which of the following is NOT produced by condensation?
a. dew
b. smog
c. fog
d. clouds
What is b.
The process of converting a liquid to a gas is known as ____.
What is evaporation?
When air expands or contracts, what type of temperature change does it experience?
What is adiabatic.
Which cloud type consists of globular cloud masses with a cauliflower structure?
What is cumulus
Rain, snow, sleet, and hail are all examples of ____.
What is precipitation?
Which of the following will NOT cause air to become unstable?
a. intense solar heating that warms the air from below
b. forceful lifting of air
c. upward movement caused by general convergence
d. subsidence of an air column
What is subsidence of an air column
Which of the following is an example of condensation nuclei?
a. dust
b. smoke
c. salt particles
d. all of the above
What is d.
Which of the following refers to the energy that is stored or released during a change of state of water?
Orographic lifting is associated with ____.
What are mountains.
A low cloud that blankets the sky and often generates precipitation is called a(n) ____.
What is nimbostratus cloud
Air that has reached its water-vapor capacity is said to be ____.
What is saturated?
The wet adiabatic rate of cooling is less than the dry rate because ____.
What is of the release of latent heat
Most fogs are the result of which of the following?
a. radiation cooling
b. the movement of air over a cold surface
c. orographic lifting
d. both a and b
What is letter d.
The process by which water vapor changes directly to a solid is called ____.
What is deposition?
What process can produce either rain or snow?
Which cloud type is confined to the middle height range?
What is altostratus
What is true about warm, saturated air?
What is it contains more water vapor than cold air.
Cool air acts as a barrier over which warmer, less dense air rises, in a process known as ____.
What is frontal wedging
Which type of precipitation consists of small clear-to-translucent ice particles?
What is sleet
What is true about relative humidity?
Which form of precipitation is likely to occur when a layer of air with temperatures above freezing overlies a subfreezing layer near the ground?
What is sleet
Which clouds are often associated with thunder and lightning?
What is cumulonimbus
What is the dry adiabatic rate?
What is 10oC/1000 meters.
Which of the following would NOT be associated with stable atmospheric conditions?
a. widespread fog
b. afternoon thunderstorms
c. temperature inversion
d. buildup of pollutants
What is b.
What type of cloud is associated with hail?
What is cumulonimbus