Chapter 12-Clouds and Precipitaton

Question 0

Liquid is changed to gas

Answer 0

Evaporation

Question 1

Three states of matter

Answer 1

Solid
Liquid
Gas

Question 2

Water vapor (gas) is changed to liquid and forms dew, fog or clouds

Answer 2

Condensation

Question 3

Solid is changed to liquid

Answer 3

Melting

Question 4

Liquid changed to solid

Answer 4

Freezing

Question 5

Solid changed directly to gas

Answer 5

Sublimation

Ice cubes shrinking in freezer

Question 6

Water vapor (gas) changed to a solid

Answer 6

Deposition

Frost in freezer

Question 7

Adiabatic heating/cooling

Temp changes

Answer 7

Air is compressed

Air expands

Question 8

Process that lifts air

Answer 8

Orographic lifting
Frontal lifting
Convergence
Localized convective lifting

Question 9

Where the air is flowing together and rising

Answer 9

Convergence

Question 10

Where unequal surface heating causes pockets of air to rise because of their buoyancy

Answer 10

Localized convective lifting

Question 11

Elevated terrains act as barriers

Answer 11

Orographic lifting

Question 12

Cool air act as a barrier to warm air

Answer 12

Frontal wedging

Question 13

Stability of Air

Types of stability

Answer 13

Stable air

Absolute instability

Question 14

Occurs when the environmental lapse rate is less than the wet adiabatic rate

Answer 14

Absolute stability

Question 15

Occurs when the atmosphere is stable for an unsaturated parcel of air but unstable for a saturated parcel

Answer 15

Conditional instability

Question 16

Made up of millions and millions of :

• minute water droplets or
• tiny crystals of ice

Answer 16

Clouds

Question 17

Three basic forms of clouds

Answer 17

Cirrus
Cumulus
Stratus

Question 18

Clouds
Classification based on height

High Clouds- >6,000 meters

Answer 18

Cirrus
Cirrostratus
Cirrocumulus

Question 19

Clouds
Classification based on height

Middle Clouds- 2,000 to 6,000 meters

Answer 19

Altostratus

Altocumulus

Question 20

Clouds
Classification based on height

Low clouds- < 2,000 meters

Answer 20

Stratus
Stratocumulus
Nimbostratus

Question 21

Clouds of vertical development

Answer 21

Cumulonimbus

Question 22

Most fog forms because of?

Answer 22

Radiation cooling

or

Movement of air over a cold surface

Question 23

Types of fog

3, fogs caused by cooling) (2, evaporation fogs

Answer 23

• Advection fog
• Radiation fog
• Upslope fog

#Steam fog
# Frontal fog

Question 24

Snow has two measurements

Answer 24

Depth

Water equivalent