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Pearson Earth Science Ch 18: Moisture, Clouds, & Precipitation
Pearson Earth Science Ch 18: Moisture, Clouds, & Precipitation
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What cloud type?
Cirrocumulus
Cumulus
Nimbostratus
Stratus
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What cloud type?
Nimbostratus
Cumulonimbus
Stratus
Cumulus
3
The process of water vapor changing to the liquid state
Sublimation
Saturation
Condensation
Humidity
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What will happen is air is heated by the ground below it?
wind will blow
air will rise
evaporation
condensation
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Stable air tends to remain in its original position, while unstable air tends to
be warm
fall
rise
be cold
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When the number of water-vapor molecules returning to the surface balances the number leaving
Humidity
Precipitation
Saturated
Super-Saturated
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When air is compressed, it
evaporates
warms
cools
condensates
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What does relative humidity describe about air?
How near the air is to being saturated
How much moisture is expected in the next 30 days
How much moisture is being evaporated into the air
How soon it will rain
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Actual water-vapor content:to amount of water vapor at specific temperature and pressure
Relative Humidity
Sublimation
Saturation
Dew Point
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True or False: Small particles of ice that fall as precipitation are called sleet.
False
True
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What cloud type?
cumulus
stratus
cirrus
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What cloud type?
cirrocumulus
stratocumulus
altocumulus
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What cloud type?
Nimbus
Cumulus
Cirrocumulus
Altostratus
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What cloud type?
Cumulus
Altostratus
Stratus
Cirrus
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What cloud type?
cirrus
cumulus
stratus
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What cloud type?
stratocumulus
cirrostratus
altocumulus
nimbostratus
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What are the three states of matter?
gas, vapor, & solid
gas, liquid, & vapor
vapor, liquid, & solid
gas, liquid, & solid
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What cloud type?
Cirrus
Cumulonimbus
Cumulus
Cirrocumulus
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What cloud type?
Cumulonimbus
Altocumulus
Altostratus
Nimbostratus
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What cloud type?
Cumulus
Cirrus
Cumulonimbus
Cirrocumulus
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What cloud type?
Stratus
Cirrus
Cirrostratus
Cumulonimbus
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What cloud type?
stratocumulus
altostratus
cumulus
altocumulus
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What cloud type?
Nimbostratus
Altostratus
Cirrostratus
Cumulonimbus
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The energy absorbed or released during a change in state of matter
Latent heat
Sublimation
Humidity
Saturation
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When masses of warm air and cold air collide, this is produced
front
cirrus cloud
weather wall
hail
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The conversion of a sold directly to a gas, without passing through the liquid state
Sublimation
Deposition
Condensation
Saturation
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When air is allowed to expand, it
cools
condensates
warms
evaporates
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This instrument commonly measures relative humidity...
Pyranometer
Thermometer
Hygrometer
Anemometer
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The process of changing from a liquid to a gas
Precipitation
Evaporation
Sublimation
Condensation
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What cloud type?
Altonimbus
Altocumulus
Cumulonimbus
Nimbostratus
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When elevated terrains act as barriers to air flow and force air to ascend
orthographic lifting
geographic lifting
orographic lifting
geometric lifting
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What cloud type?
altostratus
cirrostratus
cumulonimbus
stratocumulus
33
The most stable conditions happen when air temperature actually increases with height is
front
temperature inversion
sublimation
saturation
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What is the most important gas for understanding atmospheric processes?
Oxygen gas
Water vapor
Evaporation
Nitrogen gas
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What cloud type?
Cirrocumulus
Cumulonimbus
Altostratus
Nimbostratus
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What cloud type?
Nimbostratus
Stratus
Cirrus
Cumulonimbus
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The conversion of a vapor directly to a solid
Deposition
Sublimation
Saturation
Condensation
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The amount of water vapor in air
Evaporation
Condensation
Dew Point
Humidity
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What cloud type?
Stratus
Cirrus
Anvil
Cumulus
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True or False: Heat is released when water evaporates.
False
True
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What cloud type?
Cirrus
Cumulus
Cirrocumulus
Cumulonimbus
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What cloud type?
cirrus
stratus
cumulus
43
Any form of water that falls from a cloud is
Humidity
Precipitation
Rain
Condensation
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What cloud type?
Nimbostratus
Altostratus
Cumulonimbus
Cirrocumulus
45
What cloud type?
Cumulonimbus
Cirrus
Cumulus
Nimbostratus
46
What cloud type?
Cirrus
Columnar
Altostratus
Cumulonimbus
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What temperature of saturated air can store more water?
Colliding fronts
Warm
Hot
Cold
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What cloud type?
Cirrus
Cumulonimbus
Altocumulus
Altonimbus
49
What cloud type?
Cumulus
Alstocumulus
Cirrus
Stratus
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What happens to heat during a change of state?
None of the above
It depends on the change of state
Heat is released
Heat is absorbed
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On what basis are clouds classified?
form and thickness
form and height
form and precipitation
color and height
