Chapter 5

Question 1

Orographic uplift

Answer 1

forced uplifting on a topographic barrier

Question 2

windward side

Answer 2

Side the wind hits the topographic barrier

Question 3

leeward side

Answer 3

Side the wind does not hit on a topographic barrier

Question 4

Orographic clouds

Answer 4

formed through orographic uplift

Question 5

rain shadows

Answer 5

arid condition on leeward mountain sides

Question 6

lenticular cloud

Answer 6

lens shaped wave clouds

Question 7

rotor cloud

Answer 7

visible rising swirling air

Question 8

adiabatic cooling

Answer 8

no interchange of heat with its outside surroundings(temp changes as a result of expanding/contracting)

Question 9

stable air

Answer 9

air is staying in the same place or sinking because its colder than its surrounding

Question 10

unstable air

Answer 10

air rises on its own because its warmer than its surroundings

Question 11

adiabatic lapse rate(dry rate)

Answer 11

10 degrees C/1000m

Question 12

adiabatic lapse rate(wet rate)

Answer 12

6 degrees C/ 1000m

Question 13

Environmental Lapse rate

Answer 13

the lapse rate outside of the air parcel

Question 14

absolute stability

Answer 14

the environmental lapse rate is less than both adiabatic lapse rates

Question 15

Unstable atmosphere

Answer 15

environmental lapse rate is more than both adiabatic lapse rates

Question 16

absolutely unstable atmosphere

Answer 16

rising air parcels are warmer and less dense than the air around them

Question 17

Conditional Stability

Answer 17

Environmental lapse rate is between the dry and moist adiabatic rates

Question 18

drizzle

Answer 18

less than .5 mm raindrop

Question 19

virga

Answer 19

evaporating streaks of precipitation

Question 20

cloud burst

Answer 20

excessively heavy rainfall

Question 21

Most precipitation starts as what?

Answer 21

snow