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Atmospheric Water
Earth Science
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The process of vaporization when a liquid's temperature is below its boiling point | evaporation |
| The change of a gaseous vapor into the liquid state as the result of a decreasing temperature | condensation |
| Liquid to vapor phase change. | vaporization |
| Rapid vaporization of a liquid whose temperature is at its boiling point | boil |
| The change from the liquid state to the solid state by lowering a liquid's temperature | freeze |
| The change of state from solid to liquid by the application of heat. | melt |
| A change of state directy from a solid to the a gas state or from the gas state to a solid state without passing through the liquid state. | sublimation |
| The temperature at which the relative humidity is equal to 100 percent | dew point |
| A mass of fine water droplets or ice crystals suspended in air | cloud |
| Cooling of an air mass without a change in the air mass's overall thermal energy by a reduction in atmospheric pressure and or an increase in volume | adiabatic cooling |
| A microscopic particle of material such as salt or smoke around which a water droplet can bein to form | condensation nucleus |
| A microscopic particle of clay, dust, or smoke around which an ice crystal may form in a cloud | freezing nucleus |
| Liquid water below the freezing point | supercooled water |
| A stratus cloud in contact with the ground | fog |
| Small, slowly falling droplets of rain | drizzle |
| Cirrus clouds that are arranged in wispy streaks or bands across the sky | mares' tail |
| Cirro and altocumulus clouds that form in patterns that resemble the striped markings on the sides of a mackerel | mackerel sky |
| Water that condenses on a cool surface when air in contact with the surface cools to below its dew point | dew |
| The ice crystals that sublimate on a cold surface when the film of air in contact with the surface is cooled to a dew point below freezing | frost |
| Raindrops form as large cloud droplets begin to fall and collect other cloud droplets in a process known as ____________. | coalescencce |
| Precipitation that is more acidic than is believed to be normal | acid precipitation |
| Most brief showers or thunderstorms that occur in the summertime are the result of indirect transfer of thermal energy | convection |
| The lifting of an air mass and resulting precipitation as it flows over a mountain | orogrpahic |
| The boundry surface between two dissimilar air masses | front |
| Vertical movement of a warm air mass due to a wedge of cold air moving in under it | frontal wedging |
| The collision of two or more air masses or winds at a single location. This results in air being lifted vertical, which causes cooling and precipitation. | convergence |
| Supercooled water that falls as rain and then freezes on the surface it contacts | freezing rain |
| Frozen precipitation formed by the sublimation of water vapor into freezing nuclei | snow |
| Small frozen or partially frozen raindrops that form when rain falls through a layer of cold air | sleet |
| Precipitation in the form of spheres or irregular lumps of ice. It is always produced by strongly convective clouds such as cumulonimbus | hail |
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