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What is precipitation?
This is rain, snow, sleet, or hail that falls from clouds to earth's surface.
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What is weather?
This is the condition of the atmosphere at a certain time and place.
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What is a cloud?
Millions of tiny water droplets or ice crystals.
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What is condensation?
This is water droplets formed when the air around the glass cooled to below the dew point.
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What is a front?
This is the boundaries between air masses of different densities and different temperatures.
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What is the movement of water between the atmosphere, the land, and oceans?
This movement is called the water cycle.
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What is the dew point?
This is when the temperature happens at which the balance happens.
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What is the low, medium, and high clouds height
low ( 0 - 2000 mtrs. )
medium ( 2000 - 6000 mtrs.) high ( above 6000 mtrs. ) |
Where does condensation come from?
This comes from the surrounding air.
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What is air mass?
It is a large body of air that has similar temperature and moisture content.
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What is runoff?
This is water that flows over land and into rivers, streams, and eventually the ocean.
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What happens when temperatures are below dew point?
Liquid water droplets on a surface or on tiny particles in the air.
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What is precipitation?
Water; in any form. The four major forms are rain, sleet, hail, and snow.
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How do liquid water droplets form?
The air must be saturated or have a relative humidity of 100%.
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What happens when different air masses meet?
The less dense air mass rises over the denser air mass.
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What may happen if the water vapor cools?
It may condense to form water droplets.
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What does humidity depend on?
This depends on the rates of evaporation and condensation.
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What is hail stone?
A lump of ice that falls from the sky.
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When is air nearly saturated?
A small temperature drop is needed for air to reach its dew point.
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How does a stationary front form?
This forms when a cold air mass and a warm air mass go toward each other.
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What causes water to change states?
This change occurs when the sun's energy heats earth's surface.
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What is vapor pressure?
It is that total part of the atmosphere pressure that is caused by vapor pressure
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What is the height of a Cirrocumulus cloud?
8000 mtrs
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What is the temperature of the dew point?
The temperature at which the rate of condensation equals the rate of condensation.
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How does an occluded front form?
This forms when a warm air mass gets caught in between two cold air masses.
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