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| Is any form of water that falls from a cloud |
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| What are three states of matter? |
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| Is the energy absorbed or released during a change in state |
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| Is the process of converting a liquid to a gas |
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| Is the change of state from a gas to a liquid |
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| Is the process by which an agent of erosion loses energy and drops the sediment it is carrying |
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| What is relative humidity? |
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| Is the ratio of the air's water-vapor content to it's water-vapor capacity |
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| What happens to heat when an object goes through a change in state? |
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| When the water-vapor content of air remains constant, lowering air temperature causes an increase in relative humidity, and raising air temperature causes a decrease in relative humidity |
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| What instrument is used in measuring relative humidity? |
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| What is the difference in dry and wet adiabatic rate? |
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| The difference is that dry adiabatic rate only applies to unsaturated air and wet adiabatic rate are caused by latent heat |
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| What are the four mechanisms used to cause air to rise? |
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| Lifting, frontal wedging, convergence, and localized convective lifting |
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| Is the boundary between two adjoining air masses having contrasting characteristics |
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| What is temperature inversion? |
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| A layer of limited depth in the atmosphere of limited depth where the temperature increases rather than decreases with height |
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| What type of weather can result when air rises? |
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| Thunderstorms, and tornado |
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| What are the three types of clouds? |
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| Cirrus, cumulus, and stratus |
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| Middle clouds have a prefix of..... |
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| What types of clouds tend to be high clouds? |
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| Cirrus, cirrostratus, and cirrocumulus |
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| What types of clouds tend to be low clouds? |
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| Strarus, Stratocumulus, and nimbostratus |
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| On cool, clear, clam nights when Earth's surface cools rapidly by radiation |
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| What is the Bergeron process? |
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| A theory that relates the formation of precipitation to supercooled clouds, freezing nuclei, and the different saturation levels of ice and liquid |
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| What does supersaturated mean? |
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| The condition of air that is more highly concentrated than is normally possible under given temperature and pressure conditions |
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| What are the forms of precipitation? |
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| Rain, snow, sleet, glaze, and hail |
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| What type of clouds are the chief precipitation makers? |
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| Nimbostratus clouds are one of the main precipitation markers |
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| What does the Latin word stratus mean? |
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