Chapter 23

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How does the average amount of water that returns to the oceans by precipitation compare to the water that leaves by evaporation?
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Evaporation is greater than precipitation.
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Which of the following is not considered to be a form of precipitation?
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Dew
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When water vapor in the atmosphere condenses to liquid water,
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a cloud forms
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Which cloud type is usually associated with the arrival of a cold front?
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towering cumulus
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A warm front forms when
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a warm air mass advances over a mass of cooler air
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A cyclone is centered about a
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region of low pressure
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Longer periods of drizzle, rain, or snow are usually associated with which cloud type?
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Stratus
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A condition that lifts a parcel of air to form cumulus clouds is
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any of these
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Brief periods of showers are usually associated with which cloud type?
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Cumulus
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Most of the great deserts in the world are located
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30Β° north or south latitude
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Without condensation nuclei, a cooling air mass can become supersaturated.
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True
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Clouds that are gray have larger water droplets than do white clouds.
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False
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Raindrops in a summer rainstorm may have actually started as ice crystals at high altitudes.
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True
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When a warm air mass advances over a mass of cooler air, towering cumulus clouds form, often resulting in thunderstorms.
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False
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After the eye of a hurricane passes over you, thunderstorms and high winds resume, but now blowing in the opposite direction.
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True
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The average temperature of a location is made more even by the influence of
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A large body of water
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The one term that does not describe an air mass is
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Continental Southern
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An intense low-pressure area with widespread winds greater than 120 km/h is a
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Hurricane
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The smallest, most violent weather event is a (an)
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Tornado
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The process that is not involved with how water cycles in and out of the atmosphere is
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Boiling
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A parcel of air shoved upward into atmospheric air in a state of instability will expand and become cooler,
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But not as cool as the surrounding air
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How does precipitation form from water droplets in a cloud?
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Coalescence of water droplets or growth of ice crystals
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Which of the factors that influence the climate of a region would tend to moderate the temperature?
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Large body of water
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White, puffy cumulus clouds that form over a flat region of the country during the late afternoon of a clear, warm day are probably the result of
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Convection
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A parcel of air that is shoved upward into atmospheric air in a state of instability will expand and become cooler
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But not as cool as the surrounding air
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Clouds that are between you and the Sun will appear gray because
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The clouds filter sunlight
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The climate of a specific location is determined by
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All
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Water that returns to Earth's surface in either solid or liquid form is called
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Precipitation
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What is a large, violent circular storm that is born over warm, tropical ocean waters?
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Hurricane
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Heated air rises because
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It is pushed upward by cooler, denser air
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What is the smallest, most violent weather disturbance that occurs on the earth?
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Tornado
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A thunderstorm that occurs at 3 A.M. over a flat region of the country was probably formed by
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The meeting of moving air masses
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Weather prediction is not based on
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The farmers Almanac
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Condensation of water vapor into clouds or fog requires
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Condensation nuclei
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Which is not an example of precipitation
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Dew
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Cloud droplets merge and fuse with millions of other droplets are form large raindrops. This process is called
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Coalescence
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What type of cloud will usually produce a long, cold winter storm with drizzle, rain, ice and snow?
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Stratus
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The transfer of heat from a region of higher temperature to a region of lower temperature by the displacement of high-energy molecules is
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Convection
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A boundary between air masses is called a
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Front
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A low-pressure center where the winds move counterclockwise into the low-pressure center is called a
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Cyclone
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Clear, fair weather is associated with a
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High
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A thunderstorm usually does not develop under what conditions
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Cold air
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Upward air motion that leads to the growth of cumulus clouds to tremendous heights is called
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Updraft
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The separation of charge associated with the movement of water droplets as they fail or as they are ifted by an updraft can result in
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Lightening
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A hurricane does not have
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A high pressure area
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Weather prediction is not based on
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The Farmer's Almanac
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The general pattern of weather that occurs for a region over a number of years is called
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The climate
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The source of energy that drives the hydrologic cycle is
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The sun
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Considering the average amount of water that evaporates from Earth's oceans each year and the average amount that returns by precipitation
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Evaporation is greater than precipitation
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A thunderstorm that occurs at 3 a.m. over a flat region of the country was probably formed by
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The meeting of moving air masses
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Without any heat being added or removed, a parcel of air that is expanding is becoming
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Cooler
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A parcel of air shoved upward into atmospheric air is a state of instability will expand and become cooler,
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But not as cool as the surrounding air
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A parcel of air shoved upward into atmospheric air in a state of stability will expand and become cooler
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And thus colder than the surrounding air
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Cumulus clouds usually mean an atmospheric state of
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Instability
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When water vapor condenses in a parcel of air rising in an unstable atmosphere, the parcel is
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Accelerated upward
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A parcel of air with a relative humidity of 50% is given an upward shove into the atmosphere. What is necessary before cloud droplets form in the air?
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Cooling, saturation, condensation nuclei
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A cloud is hundreds of tiny water droplets suspended in the air. The average density of liquid water in such a cloud is about
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1 g/m cubed
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In order for liquid cud droplets at the freezing into ice crystals
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Ice-forming nuclei are needed
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Which basic form of a cloud usually produces longer periods of drizzle, rain, or snow?
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Cumulus
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The type of air mass weather that results after the arrival of polar continental air is
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Much the same from day to day, with conditions depending on the air mass and the local conditions
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The appearance of high cirrus clouds, followed by thicker and lower stratus clouds, then continuous light rain over several days probably means with of the following air masses has moved to your area
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Maritime tropical
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A fully developed cyclonic storm is most likely to form
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On a stationary front
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The basic difference between a tropical storm and a hurricane is
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Wind speed
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The climate of a specific location is determined by
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Its latitude, how much sunlight is receives, its altitude and nearby mountains and bodies of water
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The process that is not involved with how water cycles in and out of the atmosphere is
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Boiling
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The process of water vapor cycling in and out of the atmosphere with evaporation of water from the surface and precipitation of water back to the surface is called the
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Hydrologic cycle
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You are standing on a warm beach in Tahiti. Rain begins to fall. The type of cloud must be
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Cumulus
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Precipitation that is formed by cycling repeatedly through a thunderstorm, falling, and then being returned to the upper of the thunderclouds by updrafts is
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Hail
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The smallest, most violent weather event is a
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Tornado
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What kind of weather front is approaching if you observe towering cumulus clouds, thunderstorms, a rapid change of temperature, a rapid shift in wind, and a rapid increase in the barometric pressure when the front passes?
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Cold front
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The separation of charge associated with the movement of water droplets as they fall or as they are lifted by an updraft can result in
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Lightning
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Which of the following probably would not modify or influence a climate?
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If daylight saving time is used
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What is a cloud?
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An accumulation of ice crystals or water droplets in the air