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Chapter 16 Study Guide
1. What is the difference between humidity, relative humidity, and dew point?
2. Make the connection between saturation, relative humidity, and dew point.
3. Describe the relationship between temperature and the air's ability to hold water vapor.
4. What is the difference between condensation and precipitation?
5. Describe how a cloud forms. Use words like: warm air, saturation, condensation,
condensation nuclei.
6. What do these prefixes mean when talking about clouds? a. cirro b. strato c. cumulo
d. nimbo e. alto
7. What is the difference between an air mass and a front?
8. Describe the 4 types of air masses.
9. Describe the 4 types of fronts and the weather that they bring.
10. Describe the differences between a cyclone and an anticyclone.
11. What is the difference between hail, sleet, and snow?
12. Why is a tornado dangerous?
13. How does a hurricane form? What is the eye of a hurricane? Why don't hurricanes form
over land?
14. What is a storm surge?
15. What is lightning?
16. What is a psychrometer?
17. What is fog?
18. What are isotherms? What are other symbols that we might see on a weather map?
19. What is a station model? Draw one and label what each item represents. What is the
symbol for rain? Snow? T-storm?
20. Explain the relationship between evaporation and weather.