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Water Phase Changes
Humidity
Temperature Changes
Cloud Formation
Precipitation
100
solid to liquid
What is melting?
100
Define humidity
amount of water vapor in the air
100
What is it called when temperature changes without added or removing heat?
Adiabatic Temperature Change
100
Air resists what type of movement?
Vertical
100
What is the difference between fog and clouds?
fogs are clouds which occur near surface of Earth
200
liquid to gas
What is evaporation?
200
Warm or cold, which air contains more water vapor?
What is warm?
200
When air expands, it _____________. When air compresses, it _____________.
cools; warms
200
Identify at least two processes that lift air?
orographic lifting, frontal wedging, convergence and localized convective lifting
200
The Bergeron process requires which two conditions?
Supercooling & Supersaturation
300
gas to solid
What is deposition?
300
Formula for relative humidity
Actual Water Vapor / Maximum Water Vapor at that pressure and temperature
300
Which rate is faster, dry or wet adiabatic rate?
Dry
300
Which side of a mountain is typically dry?
Leeward
300
Warm precipitation forms via which mechanism or process?
Collision-Coalescence
400
phase changes where heat is absorbed
What are melting, evaporation, sublimation?
400
What is the source of heat that offsets the expansive cooling?
heat released from condensation
400
For frontal wedging, what temperature air stays low to the ground, forcing the other to rise?
cool dense air
400
Which types of clouds are described as wispy or feathery?
Cirrus
500
phase changes processes where heat is released
What is freezing, condensation, and deposition?
500
Which has more actual water vapor, room at 10 degrees Celsius with 50% relative humidity or room at 28 degrees Celsius with 50% relative humidity?
room at 28 degrees Celsius with 50% relative humidity
500
What is the dry adiabatic rate?
10 degrees Celsius per 1000 meters
500
What are warm parcels of air rising called?
Thermals
500
Which clouds are associated with rainstorms?
Nimbostratus