MET 1010: Chapter Seven

Which below best describes the solute effect?

Which statement below best describes the curvature effect?

Condensation onto hygroscopic nuclei is possible at relative humidities less than 100 percent due to the:

Which of the following is NOT an important factor in the production of rain by the collision-coalescence process?

Which cloud type below will only produce precipitation by the collision-coalescence process?

Large raindrops fall ______ than smaller raindrops, and have a ______ terminal velocity than small raindrops.

Which cloud would most likely produce drizzle?

The merging of liquid cloud droplets by collision is called:

If you observe large raindrops hitting the ground, you could probably say that the cloud overhead was ______ and had ______ updrafts.

If rain falls on one side of a street on one side of a street and not on the other side, the rain most likely fell from a:

During the ice crystal process of rain formation:

The temperature at which you would expect a cloud to become completely glaciated is:

Homogenous nucleation occurs when:

When only ice crystals exist in a cloud, the cloud is said to be:

Which of the following statements is NOT correct?

Ice nuclei may be:

Supercooled cloud droplets are:

At the same sub-freezing temperature, the saturation vapor pressure just above a liquid water surface is ______ than the saturation vapor pressure above an ice surface.

Contact nucleation is:

The growth of a precipitation particle by the collision of an ice crystal (or snowflake) with a supercooled liquid droplet is called:

Cloud seeding using silver iodide only works in:

Which of the following conditions would be most suitable for natural cloud seeding by ice crystals?

What are the two main substances used in cloud seeding?

After a rainstorm, visibility typically:

Rain which falls from a cloud but evaporates before reaching the ground is referred to as:

The most common ice crystal shape is:

Fall streaks usually ______ before reaching the ground.

Snowflakes or ice crystals falling from high cirriform clouds are called:

A light shower of snow that falls intermittently from cumuliform clouds for a short duration is known as:

The creaking sound produced by walking on snow is most common on:

Which below best describes why a fluffy covering of snow is able to protect sensitive plants and their root systems from damaging low temperatures?

Large, heavy snowflakes are associated with:

Fall streaks most often form with:

A true blizzard is characterized by:

The largest snowflakes would probably be observed in ______ air whose temperature is ______ freezing.

In order for falling snowflakes to survive in air with temperatures much above freezing,

In the winter you read in the newspaper that a large section of the Midwest is without power due to downed power lines. Which form of precipitation would most likely produce this situation?

Which is NOT a correct association?

Which of the following might be mistaken from hail?

A raindrop or partially melted snowflake that freezes into a pellet of ice in a deep subfreezing layer of air near the surface is called:

Which type of precipitation would most likely form when the surface air temperature is slightly below freezing and the air temperature increases as you move upward away from the ground?

The primary method used in preventing the growth of large, destructive hailstones is to inject a thunderstorm with large quantities of:

Hail deposited in a long narrow band is known as a:

Precipitation with the greatest size (diameter) is:

Glaze is another name for:

You would use a wooden stick to measure rainfall in the:

An amount of precipitation measured to be less than one hundredth of an inch (0.25 mm) is called:

If a city were to receive 1/2 inch of rain in the morning and then 5 inches of snow that afternoon, about how much precipitation would the weather service report for that day?

After a snowstorm, the newspaper reports that Buffalo, New York, received 1.5 inches of precipitation. If we assume an average water equivalent ratio for this snowstorm, then Buffalo received about:

On average, the water equivalent of 10 inches of snow is about:

Radar gathers information about precipitation in clouds by measuring the:

In a typical advancing winter storm, which of the following sequences of precipitation types is most likely to occur?

Freshly fallen snow can absorb sound waves.

The main difference between a cloud drop and a rain drop is its:

A typical raindrop is about ______ that of a typical cloud droplet.

Saturation vapor pressure increases as temperature increases.

Large cloud droplets fall faster than small cloud droplets because:

The lightest form of rain is:

The difference in saturation vapor pressure between supercooled water and ice reaches a maximum at about -12°C. This means that the ice crystal process will be most effective in producing precipitation when cloud temperatures are around:

Satellites measure rainfall from space using which instrument?