Earth Science Name:
Review Sheet Ch. 24 Date:
1. Air must be saturated before clouds can form.
A. True
B. False
2. Glaze ice forms when rain freezes as it strikes the ground.
A. True
B. False
3. On average, the melting of 10 cm of snow will yield 1 cm of water.
A. True
B. False
4. Clouds require condensation nuclei in order to form.
A. True
B. False
5. Specific humidity compares the amount of water vapor present in the air to the amount it can hold at saturation.
A. True
B. False
6. Forceful lifting of an air mass can occur as the air meets a ______.
7. Precipitation increases after cloud seeding because clouds contain more ______.
8. Cloud seeding may eventually be used to control ______.
9. Which type of fog usually forms over inland rivers and lakes? ______
10. The collision and combination of large and small cloud droplets are described as ______.
11. Which type of cloud is composed entirely of ice crystals? ______
12. How much liquid water would most likely result from the melting of snow in the diagram?
______
13. Which type of precipitation is most likely to occur when a layer of warm air overlies a layer of air that is below the freezing point? ______
14. Precipitation consisting of drops smaller than 0.5 mm in diameter is called ______.
15. Ice changes directly into water vapor by the process of ______.
16. In which type of cloud is hail usually formed? ______
17. Which type of cloud usually forms in fair weather? ______
18. Most of the water in supercooled clouds exists as ______.
19. Frost forms by the process of ______.
20. The most common form of solid precipitation is ______.
21. Most water enters the atmosphere by the process of ______.
22. As air rises and expands, it undergoes ______.
23. What characteristic of the atmosphere changes as air temperature changes? ______
24. Rain in tropical regions is commonly formed by the process of ______.
25. Which type of fog occurs as warm moist air moves across a cold surface? ______
26. Which of the following cloud types occurs at the lowest altitude? ______
27. A funnel and a cylindrical container could be used to measure the ______.
28. What cloud type occurs at the highest altitude? ______
29. What is the relative humidity when there are 5 g/m3 of water vapor in air with a saturation point of 25 g/m3 ? ______
30. A psychrometer is used to measure ______.
31. The mass of water vapor in a sample of air compared to the mass of water vapor the air can hold at saturation is called the ______.
32. What is another name for cumulonimbus clouds? ______
33. What instrument package is carried in a balloon to high altitudes in order to measure temperature and humidity? ______
34. The instrument that uses wet-bulb and dry-bulb thermometers to measure relative humidity is called a(n) ______.
35. The condensation level is marked by the base of the ______.
36. What forms on surfaces when the dew point is below the freezing temperature of water? ______
37. By the process of sublimation, ice changes into ______.
38. The principal source of atmospheric moisture is ______.
Matching
A. / advection fogB. / cirrus cloud
C. / cloud seeding
D. / coalascence
E. / condensation nuclei
F. / convective cooling
G. / cumulus cloud
H. / dew point
I. / frost
J. / hail
K. / humidity
L. / saturated
M. / stratus cloud
N. / sublimation
O. / sleet
____ 39. cloud that is sheet-like and forms lowest in the sky
____ 40. adding freezing nuclei to super cooled clouds to increase precipitation
____ 41. amount of water vapor in the air
____ 42. feathery clouds made of ice crystals
____ 43. air contains all the water vapor it can hold at that temperature
____ 44. ice crystals formed when water directly enters the solid state
____ 45. ice pellets formed when rain falls through a layer of freezing air
____ 46. combining different sized cloud droplets to form larger droplets
____ 47. solid changes directly into a solid
____ 48. condensation from the cooling of warm, moist air moving across a cool surface
____ 49. thick, billowy cloud that forms in the middle atitudes
____ 50. lumps of ice
____ 51. decrease in temperature of air resulting as the air rises and cools
____ 52. solid particles in the atmosphere on which water vapor condenses
____ 53. temperature air is cooled and becomes saturated
Test Ch. 24
Answer Section
TRUE/FALSE
1. ANS: T PTS: 1 DIF: A: Standard
2. ANS: T PTS: 1 DIF: A: Standard
3. ANS: T PTS: 1 DIF: A: Standard
4. ANS: T PTS: 1 DIF: A: Standard
5. ANS: F PTS: 1 DIF: A: Standard
MULTIPLE CHOICE
6. ANS: B PTS: 1 DIF: A: Standard
7. ANS: D PTS: 1 DIF: B: Enriched
8. ANS: C PTS: 1 DIF: A: Standard
9. ANS: B PTS: 1 DIF: A: Standard
10. ANS: B PTS: 1 DIF: A: Standard
11. ANS: C PTS: 1 DIF: A: Standard
12. ANS: B PTS: 1 DIF: B: Enriched
13. ANS: B PTS: 1 DIF: A: Standard
14. ANS: A PTS: 1 DIF: B: Enriched
15. ANS: B PTS: 1 DIF: A: Standard
16. ANS: A PTS: 1 DIF: B: Enriched
17. ANS: B PTS: 1 DIF: A: Standard
18. ANS: B PTS: 1 DIF: B: Enriched
19. ANS: B PTS: 1 DIF: A: Standard
20. ANS: D PTS: 1 DIF: A: Standard
21. ANS: A PTS: 1 DIF: A: Standard
22. ANS: D PTS: 1 DIF: A: Standard
23. ANS: B PTS: 1 DIF: B: Enriched
24. ANS: D PTS: 1 DIF: A: Standard
25. ANS: C PTS: 1 DIF: A: Standard
26. ANS: C PTS: 1 DIF: A: Standard
27. ANS: A PTS: 1 DIF: A: Standard
28. ANS: C PTS: 1 DIF: A: Standard
29. ANS: C PTS: 1 DIF: B: Enriched
30. ANS: D PTS: 1 DIF: A: Standard
31. ANS: B PTS: 1 DIF: A: Standard
COMPLETION
32. ANS: thunderheads
PTS: 1 DIF: A: Standard
33. ANS: radiosonde
PTS: 1 DIF: B: Enriched
34. ANS: psychrometer
PTS: 1 DIF: A: Standard
35. ANS: cloud layer
PTS: 1 DIF: A: Standard
36. ANS: frost
PTS: 1 DIF: A: Standard
37. ANS: water vapor
PTS: 1 DIF: A: Standard
38. ANS: ocean water
PTS: 1 DIF: A: Standard
MATCHING
39. ANS: M PTS: 1
40. ANS: C PTS: 1
41. ANS: K PTS: 1
42. ANS: B PTS: 1
43. ANS: L PTS: 1
44. ANS: I PTS: 1
45. ANS: O PTS: 1
46. ANS: D PTS: 1
47. ANS: N PTS: 1
48. ANS: A PTS: 1
49. ANS: G PTS: 1
50. ANS: J PTS: 1
51. ANS: F PTS: 1
52. ANS: E PTS: 1
53. ANS: H PTS: 1