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Chapter 5 Weather – Study Questions. When water droplets in a cloud combine, become too heavy, and fall to the ground as rain, snow, sleet, or hail, we are experiencing ____. Masses of puffy, white clouds, often with flat bases, that form when air currents rise are called ____ clouds.
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Chapter 5 Weather – Study Questions
When water droplets in a cloud combine, become too heavy, and fall to the ground as rain, snow, sleet, or hail, we are experiencing ____.
Masses of puffy, white clouds, often with flat bases, that form when air currents rise are called ____ clouds.
____ forms when raindrops pass through a layer of freezing air near Earth's surface, forming ice pellets.
____ forms when the air temperature is below freezing and water vapor changes directly to solid.
To keep track of high-and low-pressure areas, weather maps are drawn with lines connecting points of equal atmospheric pressure. These lines are called ____.
Clouds form as warm air rises, expands, cools, and becomes saturated, and then ____ condense(s) into tiny drops, which collect.
____ humidity is a measure of the amount of water vapor that air is holding compared to the amount needed for saturation at a specific temperature.
Tornadoes can form when wind at different ____ blows in different directions and at different speeds.
Low, layered gray clouds that produce light precipitation are ____ clouds.
A(n) ____ shows weather conditions at one specific location.
High, thin, white, feathery clouds containing ice crystals are usually associated with fair weather, but they can also indicate approaching storms. These clouds are called ____ clouds.
A violent, whirling wind that moves in a narrow path over land is a ____.
a type of precipitation that forms when the air temperature is below freezing and water vapor changes directly to a solid
When severe weather conditions already exist, a(n) ____ is issued.
a form of precipitation that can break windows and destroy crops
The boundary between cold and warm air masses is called a ____.
the temperature at which air is saturated and condensation forms
A ____ studies and forecasts the weather using data gathered from many sources.
forms when millions of water droplets become suspended in air and collect around small dust particles
given as a percentage indicating how much water vapor is in the air on a certain day
The temperature at which air is saturated and condensation forms is the ____.
a type of precipitation that forms when raindrops pass through a layer of freezing air near Earth's surface
When air contains as much moisture as possible at a specific temperature, it is ____.
As the temperature of air increases, can it hold more water vapor (A) or less water vapor (B)?
Water can form on grass in the early morning when the air is clear because ____.
A(n) ____ is a large body of air that has the same properties as the Earth's surface over which it develops.
