Chapter 12 Moisture, Clouds, and Precipitation | Test Bank 8e

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Foundations of Earth Science, 8e (Lutgens/Tarbuck/Tasa)

Chapter 12 Moisture, Clouds, and Precipitation

12.1 Multiple Choice Questions

1) The change of state from a gas to a liquid is called ________.

A) evaporation

B) sublimation

C) condensation

D) melting

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Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding

Global Sci Out: G2

Section: 12.1 Water's Change of State

Focus/Concepts: 12.1

ESLI: 1.3 Earth science investigations take many different forms.

2) The term ________ is used to describe the conversion of a solid directly to a gas, without passing through the liquid state.

A) evaporation

B) sublimation

C) condensation

D) melting

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Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding

Global Sci Out: G2

Section: 12.1 Water's Change of State

Focus/Concepts: 12.1

ESLI: 1.3 Earth science investigations take many different forms.

3) "Frost" buildup inside a household freezer is an example of which process?

A) evaporation

B) condensation

C) sublimation

D) deposition

Diff: 2

Bloom's Taxonomy: Applying/Analyzing

Global Sci Out: G2

Section: 12.1 Water's Change of State

Focus/Concepts: 12.1

ESLI: 1.3 Earth science investigations take many different forms.

4) ________ is an indication of how near the air is to saturation rather than the actual quantity of water vapor in the air.

A) Mixing ratio

B) Relative humidity

C) Dew-point temperature

D) Adiabatic cooling

Diff: 1

Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding

Global Sci Out: G7

Section: 12.2 Humidity: Water Vapor in Air

Focus/Concepts: 12.2

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

5) After the proper wet-bulb-measuring procedure, the two thermometers on a sling psychrometer yield the same temperature. This indicates that ________.

A) the relative humidity is low

B) the relative humidity is moderate

C) the air is warming up

D) the air is saturated with water vapor

Diff: 2

Bloom's Taxonomy: Applying/Analyzing

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Section: 12.2 Humidity: Water Vapor in Air

Focus/Concepts: 12.2

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

6) How can condensation be triggered to form clouds or fog?

A) Add sufficient water vapor to the air so that it reaches saturation.

B) Heat the air to its dew point.

C) Remove sufficient water vapor from the air so that it reaches saturation.

D) Increase humidity.

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Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding

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Section: 12.3 Adiabatic Temperature Changes and Cloud Formation

Focus/Concepts: 12.3

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

7) The cooling or warming of air that occurs because air is allowed to expand or is compressed, not because it is added or subtracted is called ________.

A) wet adiabatic rate

B) dry adiabatic rate

C) adiabatic temperature changes

D) sensible heat

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Section: 12.3 Adiabatic Temperature Changes and Cloud Formation

Focus/Concepts: 12.3

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

8) The most important process of cloud formation in the atmosphere is ________.

A) cooling by compression of air

B) radiation cooling

C) cooling by expansion of air

D) cooling by release of latent heat of vaporization

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Section: 12.3 Adiabatic Temperature Changes and Cloud Formation

Focus/Concepts: 12.3

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

9) Dry adiabatic rate only refers to ________.

A) parcel

B) saturated air

C) unsaturated air

D) condensation level

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Section: 12.3 Adiabatic Temperature Changes and Cloud Formation

Focus/Concepts: 12.3

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

10) A fire extinguisher containing compressed CO2 is used to put out a fire. In spite of being close to the flames, the firefighter notices a white layer of "frost" forming on the exterior of the fire extinguisher can. What's going on?

A) The gas in the extinguisher is expanding when released, cooling adiabatically.

B) The gas in the extinguisher is cooling under higher pressure.

C) The exterior temperature must be dropping.

D) The fire is pulling heat from the surrounding air.

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Bloom's Taxonomy: Applying/Analyzing

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Section: 12.3 Adiabatic Temperature Changes and Cloud Formation

Focus/Concepts: 12.3

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

11) When elevated terrain such as a mountain range causes air to rise, this is called ________.

A) orographic lifting

B) frontal wedging

C) adiabatic cooling

D) convergence

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Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding

Global Sci Out: G2

Section: 12.4 Processes That Lift Air

Focus/Concepts: 12.4

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

12) Air that does not resist vertical displacement is called ________.

A) stable

B) unstable

C) warming

D) cloudy

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Section: 12.5 The Critical Weathermaker: Atmospheric Stability

Focus/Concepts: 12.5

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

13) When the environmental lapse rate is less than the wet adiabatic rate, ________ occurs.

A) absolute instability

B) absolute stability

C) conditional instability

D) conditional stability

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Section: 12.5 The Critical Weathermaker: Atmospheric Stability

Focus/Concepts: 12.5

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

14) ________ resists upward movement.

A) Convection

B) Parcels

C) Unstable air

D) Stable air

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Section: 12.5 The Critical Weathermaker: Atmospheric Stability

Focus/Concepts: 12.5

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

15) Which of the following is the best example of a hygroscopic nucleus?

A) pollen

B) smoke

C) sea salt

D) microscopic dust

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Section: 12.6 Condensation and Cloud Formation

Focus/Concepts: 12.6

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

16) What unusual situation can occur in the absence of condensation nuclei?

A) adiabatic warming

B) a relative humidity of more than 100 percent

C) cumulonimbus clouds

D) cirrostratus clouds

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Section: 12.6 Condensation and Cloud Formation

Focus/Concepts: 12.6

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

17) Clouds consist of ________.

A) water droplets

B) ice particles

C) either water droplets or ice particles

D) white-colored gases

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Section: 12.6 Condensation and Cloud Formation

Focus/Concepts: 12.6

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

18) Which of the following is a cloud of vertical development?

A) cirrus

B) stratocumulus

C) nimbostratus

D) cumulonimbus

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Section: 12.6 Condensation and Cloud Formation

Focus/Concepts: 12.6

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

19) When warm, moist air moves over a cold surface, ________ fog may result.

A) advection

B) radiation

C) upslope

D) steam

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Section: 12.7 Types of Fog

Focus/Concepts: 12.7

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

20) What two kinds of fog are the result of adding moisture to a layer of air?

A) advection and radiation

B) radiation and upslope

C) upslope and steam

D) steam and frontal

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Section: 12.7 Types of Fog

Focus/Concepts: 12.7

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

21) Relative to lower temperatures, high temperatures require ________ moisture to fully saturate the air.

A) less

B) more

C) the same amount of

D) no

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Section: 12.2 Humidity: Water Vapor in Air

Focus/Concepts: 12.2

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

22) Mixing ratio, relative humidity, and dew-point temperature are all ways of measuring the amount of ________ in the air.

A) convergence

B) condensation level

C) vapor pressure

D) water vapor

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Section: 12.2 Humidity: Water Vapor in Air

Focus/Concepts: 12.2

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

23) ________ clouds form sheets or layers that cover much of the sky.

A) Cirrus

B) Stratus

C) Cumulus

D) Cirrostratus

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Section: 12.6 Condensation and Cloud Formation

Focus/Concepts: 12.6

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

24) A wintertime form of precipitation that consists of small transparent or translucent ice particles is called ________.

A) drizzle

B) freezing rain

C) sleet

D) mist

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Section: 12.9 Forms of Precipitation

Focus/Concepts: 12.9

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

25) ________ is a kind of precipitation consisting of drops of water that fall from a cloud and have a diameter of at least 0.5 millimeter (0.02 inch).

A) Rain

B) Sleet

C) Rime

D) Glaze

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Section: 12.9 Forms of Precipitation

Focus/Concepts: 12.9

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

26) ________ is a type of fog that forms in valleys at night.

A) Radiation

B) Steam

C) Frontal

D) Advection

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Section: 12.7 Types of Fog

Focus/Concepts: 12.7

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

27) Meteorologists refer to an imaginary volume of air enclosed in a thin elastic cover as a ________.

A) parcel

B) unit

C) convection cell

D) cloud

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Section: 12.3 Adiabatic Temperature Changes and Cloud Formation

Focus/Concepts: 12.3

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

28) ________ occurs when warm air is forced up and over a mass of cooler air.

A) Orographic lifting

B) Frontal wedging

C) Adiabatic cooling

D) Convergence

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Section: 12.4 Processes That Lift Air

Focus/Concepts: 12.4

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

29) ________ is a cloud with its base at or very near the ground.

A) Cumulus

B) Stratus

C) Cirrus

D) Fog

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Section: 12.7 Types of Fog

Focus/Concepts: 12.7

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

30) The ________ is the temperature to which a parcel of air would need to be cooled in order to reach saturation.

A) water vapor

B) dew point

C) condensation level

D) parcel

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Section: 12.2 Humidity: Water Vapor in Air

Focus/Concepts: 12.2

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

31) Updrafts in cumulonimbus clouds may loft small particles of ice through the cloud, coating them and producing ________.

A) rime

B) hail

C) glaze

D) sleet

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Section: 12.9 Forms of Precipitation

Focus/Concepts: 12.9

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

32) Any open container having a consistent cross-sectional area throughout can be used as a ________.

A) thermometer

B) psychrometer

C) hygrometer

D) rain gauge

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Section: 12.10 Measuring Precipitation

Focus/Concepts: 12.10

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

33) Atmospheric ________ is the ultimate cause of weather.

A) instability

B) stability

C) humidity

D) condensation

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Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding

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Section: 12.5 The Critical Weathermaker: Atmospheric Stability

Focus/Concepts: 12.5

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

34) ________ occurs when moist air has an environmental lapse rate between the dry and wet adiabatic rates. Simply, the air is stable for an unsaturated parcel or air, but becomes unstable if the parcel of air be forced high enough for it be become saturated.

A) Absolute instability

B) Absolute stability

C) Conditional instability

D) Conditional stability

Diff: 1

Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding

Global Sci Out: G2

Section: 12.5 The Critical Weathermaker: Atmospheric Stability

Focus/Concepts: 12.5

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

35) The theory that relates the formation of precipitation to supercooled clouds, freezing nuclei, and the different saturation levels of ice and liquid water is called ________.

A) the collision-coalescence process

B) the Bergeron process

C) humidity-condenser process

D) evapotranspiration process

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Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding

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Section: 12.8 How Precipitation Forms

Focus/Concepts: 12.8

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

36) The ________ occurs when large cloud droplets (giants) collide and join together with smaller droplets to form raindrops.

A) collision-coalescence process

B) Bergeron process

C) humidity-condenser process

D) evapotranspiration process

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Section: 12.8 How Precipitation Forms

Focus/Concepts: 12.8

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

37) ________ are solid particles that serve as cores for the formation of ice crystals.

A) Glaze

B) Rime

C) Parcels

D) Freezing nuclei

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Section: 12.8 How Precipitation Forms

Focus/Concepts: 12.8

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

38) Liquid water at temperatures below freezing is termed ________.

A) demistified

B) hypercondensed

C) supercooled

D) coalesced

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Section: 12.8 How Precipitation Forms

Focus/Concepts: 12.8

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

39) The change of state from a liquid to a gas is called ________.

A) evaporation

B) sublimation

C) condensation

D) melting

Diff: 1

Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding

Global Sci Out: G2

Section: 12.1 Water's Change of State

Focus/Concepts: 12.1

ESLI: 1.3 Earth science investigations take many different forms.

40) When 10 calories of heat are absorbed by 1 gram of water, the molecules vibrate faster and the temperature ________.

A) falls then rises

B) remains the same

C) falls

D) rises

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Bloom's Taxonomy: Applying/Analyzing

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Section: 12.1 Water's Change of State

Focus/Concepts: 12.1

ESLI: 1.3 Earth science investigations take many different forms.

41) ________ occurs when the wind pattern near Earth's surface is such that more air is entering an area than leaving.

A) Orographic lifting

B) Frontal wedging

C) Adiabatic cooling

D) Convergence

Diff: 1

Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding

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Section: 12.4 Processes That Lift Air

Focus/Concepts: 12.4

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

42) Unequal surface heating that causes localized pockets of air (thermals) to rise because of their buoyancy is termed ________.

A) stable air

B) convective lifting

C) adiabatic cooling

D) convergence

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Section: 12.4 Processes That Lift Air

Focus/Concepts: 12.4

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

43) Cirrostratus clouds form in the ________ regions of the troposphere.

A) highest

B) middle

C) lowest

D) fog bank

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Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding

Global Sci Out: G2

Section: 12.5 The Critical Weathermaker: Atmospheric Stability

Focus/Concepts: 12.5

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

44) ________ forms when relatively humid air moves up a gradually sloping landform or the steep slopes of a mountain.

A) Frontal fog

B) Advection fog

C) Radiation fog

D) Upslope fog

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Section: 12.7 Types of Fog

Focus/Concepts: 12.7

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

45) ________ is produced by evaporation from a warm-water surface into the cool air above; often found over lakes and rivers.

A) Steam fog

B) Advection fog

C) Radiation fog

D) Upslope fog

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Section: 12.7 Types of Fog

Focus/Concepts: 12.7

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

12.2 Matching Questions

Match the items in the first column with the correct descriptions in the second column.

A) clouds that are often "cottonlike" in appearance

B) amorphous layer of dark gray clouds

C) white to gray clouds, often made up of separate globules called "sheepbacks"

D) low uniform cloud that resembles fog but does not rest on the ground and that may produce drizzle

E) soft, gray clouds in globular patches; may join together to form a continuous cloud

F) thin, delicate, fibrous, ice-crystal clouds with hooked filaments called "mares' tails"

G) stratified veil of clouds that is generally then and may produce light precipitation

H) thin, white, ice-crystal clouds that take the form of ripples, waves or globular masses in a row; least common of the cloud types

I) towering clouds; associated with heavy rainfall, thunder, lightning, hail, and tornadoes

J) thin sheet of white, ice-crystal clouds that may give the sky a milky look, may produce halos

1) Cirrus

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Section: 12.6 Condensation and Cloud Formation

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2) Cirrostratus

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3) Cirrocumulus

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4) Altostratus

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5) Altocumulus

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6) Cumulonimbus

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7) Nimbostratus

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8) Stratus

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9) Stratocumulus

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10) Cumulus

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Answers: 1) F 2) J 3) H 4) G 5) C 6) I 7) B 8) D 9) E 10) A

Match the form of precipitation with the correct description.

A) a thin coating of ice on objects consisting of ice feathers that point into the wind

B) lumpy ice particles that form while raindrops freeze while falling through layer of subfreezing air

C) precipitation from stratus clouds consisting of tiny droplets

D) a cloud of water droplets suspended in the atmosphere at or near Earth's surface

E) a coating of ice on objects formed when supercooled rain freezes on contact

F) nearly spherical ice pellets having concentric layers and formed by the successive freezing of layers of water

G) solid form of precipitation produced by sublimation of water vapor

11) Drizzle

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Section: 12.9 Forms of Precipitation

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12) Mist

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13) Snow

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14) Sleet

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15) Hail

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16) Rime

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17) Glaze

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Answers: 11) C 12) D 13) G 14) B 15) F 16) A 17) E

12.3 Essay Questions

1) Explain how perspiring cools the skin.

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Section: 12.1 Water's Change of State

Focus/Concepts: 12.1

ESLI: 1.3 Earth science investigations take many different forms.

2) Compare and contrast absolute stability with absolute instability and conditional instability.

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Section: 12.5 The Critical Weathermaker: Atmospheric Stability

Focus/Concepts: 12.5

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

3) Why is the vertical movement of air critical to the formation of clouds and precipitation? What role do adiabatic temperature changes play in these processes?

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Section: 12.6 Condensation and Cloud Formation

Focus/Concepts: 12.6

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

4) On a specific day in the winter in St. Louis, Missouri it began snowing in the morning, the snow changed to rain by noon, and later in the afternoon sleet was falling. This later turned to snow, and by evening rain was freezing on bridges and roadways as glaze. Briefly explain how such a sequence of precipitation might occur.

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Section: 12.9 Forms of Precipitation

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5) On a warm summer day, you go outside and feel fat, cold raindrops splashing on your hands. On a winter day, you go outside and notice fat, fluffy snowflakes piling up on top of your mittens. Compare and contrast the mechanisms by which these two kinds of precipitation were produced.

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Section: 12.8 How Precipitation Forms

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6) Explain the concept of orographic lifting and discuss how a rainshadow desert forms.

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Section: 12.4 Processes That Lift Air

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12.4 Visual

1) Examine the photo. Explain how the relative humidity inside the house compares to the relative humidity outside the house on this particular day.

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Section: 12.2 Humidity: Water Vapor in Air

Focus/Concepts: 12.2

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

2) Examine the photo. Do these hot-air balloons illustrate absolute stability, absolute instability, or conditional instability? Explain.

Diff: 3

Bloom's Taxonomy: Evaluating/Creating

Global Sci Out: G7

Section: 12.5 The Critical Weathermaker: Atmospheric Stability

Focus/Concepts: 12.5

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

3) A 1-kilogram parcel of air is at 35°C and contains 7 grams of water vapor. What is the relative humidity?

A) 20%

B) 40%

C) 50%

D) 70%

Diff: 2

Bloom's Taxonomy: Applying/Analyzing

Global Sci Out: G7

Section: 12.2 Humidity: Water Vapor in Air

Focus/Concepts: 12.2

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

4) Examine the graph. Based on the relationship between temperature and relative humidity, at what time of day would an Earth scientist expect the highest relative humidity?

A) 6 am (location A)

B) 11am (location B)

C) 5 pm (location C)

D) 12 am (midnight) (location D)

Diff: 2

Bloom's Taxonomy: Applying/Analyzing

Global Sci Out: G7

Section: 12.2 Humidity: Water Vapor in Air

Focus/Concepts: 12.2

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

5) Examine the figure. Which process is illustrated?

A) orographic lifting

B) frontal wedging

C) adiabatic cooling

D) convergence

Diff: 1

Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding

Global Sci Out: G7

Section: 12.4 Processes That Lift Air

Focus/Concepts: 12.4

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

6) Examine the figure. Which process is illustrated?

A) orographic lifting

B) frontal wedging

C) adiabatic cooling

D) convergence

Diff: 1

Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding

Global Sci Out: G7

Section: 12.4 Processes That Lift Air

Focus/Concepts: 12.4

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

7) Examine the photo. These balloons are rising because the ________ air inside the balloon is less dense than the surrounding air.

A) hot (warm)

B) cool (cold)

C) humid

D) stagnant

Diff: 2

Bloom's Taxonomy: Applying/Analyzing

Global Sci Out: G7

Section: 12.2 Humidity: Water Vapor in Air

Focus/Concepts: 12.2

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.