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| If the water vapor content of air remain constant, lowering air temperature cause what? |
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| When the water-vapor content of air remains, lowering air temperature cause an increase in relative humidity, and raining air temperature cause a decrease in relative humidity. |
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| What is true about warm, saturated air? |
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| Warm saturated air contain more water vapor than cold air. |
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| Compare to clouds, fogs are? |
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| clouds result when air rises and cool. Fog is a cloud with its base at or near the ground. |
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| Air that has reached its water vapor capacity is said to be? |
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| Hurricanes form in tropical waters between the latitude of what? |
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| 5 and 20 degrees north and south latitude. |
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| What type of front forms when the surface position of the front does not move? |
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| the process of converting a liquid to a gas in known as? |
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| the boundary that separates different air masses is called what? |
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| what is the first sign of an approaching warm front? |
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| the first sign is the appearance of cirrus clouds |
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| what kind of shape is associated with a middle-latitude cyclone? |
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| what is the dry adiabatic rate? |
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| rate of cooling or heating in unsaturated air |
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| a low cloud that blanket the sky and often generates precipitation is called an? |
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| which term is used to describe clouds of middle height? |
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| the process by which water vapor changes directly into a solid is called? |
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| an immense body of air characterize by similar properties at any given altitude is known as? |
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| which of the following refers to the temp to which air would have to be cooled to reach saturation? |
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| water vapor make up what fraction of atmosphere gases? |
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| which gas is the most important for understanding atmosphere processes? |
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| the ratio of air's water vapor content to it capacity to hold water vapor at the same temperature is the? |
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| which of the following refers to the energy that is stored or released during a change of state of water? |
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