Chapters 12 & 13 & 14
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| show | stratus
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| The cloud form that consists of globular cloud masses that take on a billowy or cauliflower-like structure is called | show 🗑
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| This term is used to describe clouds found in the middle height range. | show 🗑
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| High clouds that form delicate veil-like patches or extended wispy fibers are termed | show 🗑
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| This term is used to describe clouds that produce precipitation | show 🗑
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| show | cumulus
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| show | cirrus
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| Thunder and lightening are associated with these clouds. | show 🗑
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| show | Altostratus
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| A halo around the Sun or Moon indicates that this cloud type is present. | show 🗑
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| A dark gray cloud that blankets the sky and often generates precipitation is called | show 🗑
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| show | cumulonimbus
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| show | cumulonimbus
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| A wintertime form of precipitation that consists of small ice particles is called | show 🗑
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| This fog forms in valleys at night | show 🗑
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| show | advection
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| show | upslope
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| show | steam
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| show | glaze
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| The amount of water vapor in the air (by volume) usually does not exceed_____. | show 🗑
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| We are likely to have our highest relative humidity______. | show 🗑
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| show | the air has a high relative humidity
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| Under what circumstances could the relative humidity exceed 100% without producing condensation in the air? | show 🗑
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| show | water vapor condenses to a liquid
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| The most important process of cloud formation in the atmosphere is_____. | show 🗑
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| show | 1300 meters
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| Stability prevails when the environmental lapse rate is __________. | show 🗑
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| show | greater than the dry adiabatic rate
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| show | subsidence of an air column
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| show | afternoon thunder showers
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| A parcel of air has a temperature of 0˚C as it crosses a mountain range at 3000 meters. If it descends, what will its temperature be when it reaches sea level? | show 🗑
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| Deserts such as the Great Basin, Gobi, and Takla Makan are examples of __________. | show 🗑
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| show | Condensation
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| show | sublimation
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| This process by which water vapor changes directly to a solid is called | show 🗑
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| This process results in the release of about 600 calories of latent heat per gram of water. | show 🗑
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| What is the dew point for 14 grams vapor content and 20 gram at 25 degrees Celcius, 14 rams at 20 degrees Celcius, and 10 grams at 15 degrees Celcius | show 🗑
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| show | evaporation
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| show | cumulonimbus
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| What is the relative humidity for vapor content 14 grams, vapor capacity 20 grams at 25 degrees Celsius? | show 🗑
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| What would happen if the temperature were cooled 15 degrees Celsius? | show 🗑
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| show | day and flows toward the land
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| Fast moving currents of air found near the top of the troposphere are called | show 🗑
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| What is the technical name for a high pressure center? | show 🗑
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| show | 1013 mb
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| Standard sea level pressure in inches of mercury is | show 🗑
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| show | anemometer
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| An altimeter is an adaptation of the | show 🗑
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| show | both wind speed and latitude
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| show | Isobars
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| show | high winds
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| A steep pressure gradient | show 🗑
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| Widely spaced isobars often indicate | show 🗑
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| show | only wind direction
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| In the Northern Hemisphere, the winds associated with a low pressure system (cyclone) blow | show 🗑
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| In the Northern Hemisphere, winds associated with a high pressure system blow | show 🗑
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| If Earth were not rotating | show 🗑
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| show | are generally faster than surface winds
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| show | all of these
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| In the Southern Hemisphere, the winds associated with a low pressure system blow | show 🗑
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| Low air pressure systems are usually associated with | show 🗑
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| show | rising
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| If stormy weather is approaching, the pressure tendency would probably be_____. | show 🗑
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| show | Westerlies
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| Another name for the area of subtropical highs is | show 🗑
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| show | subtropical high
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| This pressure zone is associated with abundant precipitation and warm temperatures. | show 🗑
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| show | In winter
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| show | a zone where the polar easterlies and the westerlies converge
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| show | very dry, warm wind flowing down a mountain slope
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| The precipitation associated with a warm front typically arrives _______the actual front | show 🗑
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| This air mass may produce an occasional northeaster in the winter. | show 🗑
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| When an area is experience several consecutive days of rather constant weather, it is probably _____. | show 🗑
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| show | mT
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| On a weather map, ____fronts are shown by a line with triangular points on one side. | show 🗑
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| show | warm
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| When a hurricane moves onto land, it rapidly loses its punch; that is, the storm declines in intensity. which of the factors listed below contribute to this loss of punch? | show 🗑
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| Which of the following is considered to be a boundary between two different air masses? | show 🗑
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| Tornadoes most often move TOWARDS what direction? | show 🗑
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| show | an occluded front forms
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| The eye of a hurricane is ____. | show 🗑
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| show | cP
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| Which of the following should have the steepest pressure gradient? | show 🗑
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| show | mT
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| show | April-June period
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| After the center of a mature wave cyclone passes, you should expect | show 🗑
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| An mP air mass is | show 🗑
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| The air masses that have the greatest influence on weather conditions in the central US are_____. | show 🗑
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| Hurricanes generally are | show 🗑
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| show | hurricane
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| A wind shift from south or southwest to northwest is commonly associated with the passage of a _________ front. | show 🗑
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| Usually _____fronts produce several hours of moderate-to-gentle precipitation over a large region. | show 🗑
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| show | both middle-latitude cyclone and low pressure
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| show | usually occur along the warm front of a mid-latitude cyclone
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| If an observer sees cirrus clouds, followed later by cirrostratus, and then altostratus, he or she is witnessing the approach of a ______ front. | show 🗑
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| show | refer to a warm front
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| show | 1.0
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