Chapter 10-Atmospheric Water

Question 0

Vaporization

Answer 0

Water changing from liquid to a gas by boiling.

Question 1

Evaporation

Answer 1

When water changes from liquid to a gas without boiling.

Question 2

Condensation

Answer 2

The change from gas to liquid.

Question 3

Boil

Answer 3

The rapid vaporization of a liquid whose temperature is at boiling point.

Question 4

Freeze

Answer 4

Liquid to solid

Question 5

Melt

Answer 5

Solid to liquid

Question 6

Sublimation

Answer 6

A change of state directly from a solid to the gaseous state or from the gaseous to the solid-state without passing through a liquid state.

Question 7

Dewpoint

Answer 7

The temperature at which the relative humidity is 100%.

Question 8

Cloud

Answer 8

A mass of water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the air.

Question 9

Adiabatic Clouds

Answer 9

A process or object that does not exchange energy with its surroundings.

Question 10

Condensation Nucei

Answer 10

Are microscopic particles of material, such as salt or smoke, around which the tiny water droplets form.

Question 11

Freezing Nulei

Answer 11

Small particles of clay or dust shaped like ice crystals.

Question 12

Supercooled water

Answer 12

When cloud droplets remain liquid even down to temperatures of -40°F

Question 13

Stratus

Answer 13

Then layers and sheets

Question 14

Cumulus

Answer 14

Piles or billows

Question 15

Cirrus

Answer 15

Wispy curls

Question 16

Drizzle

Answer 16

Small droplets of rain falling slowly.

Question 17

Mares tail

Answer 17

Vail – like sheets of clouds

Question 18

Mackerel sky

Answer 18

Cirro and altocumulus clouds that form in patterns that resembled the striped markings on the sides of a mackerel

Question 19

Dew

Answer 19

Water that condenses on a cool surface when air in contact with the surface cools to below its dewpoint.

Question 20

Frost

Answer 20

The ice crystals that sublimate on a cold surface when the film of air in contact with the surface is cold to dew point below freezing.

Question 21

Coalesce

Answer 21

The building of raindrops by the joining of many smaller drops.