Download Meteorology Chapter 5 Test Review

Meteorology Chapter 5 Test Review
1. Which cloud types are low level clouds?
2. Which cloud types are high level clouds?
3. What are the two basic criteria when classifying clouds?
4. What cloud formations are rain producers?
5. Which cloud formation causes there to be a halo around the Sun or Moon?
6. Where do Lenticular clouds usually form?
7. What is it called when the dew point of air is below freezing,
and water vapor goes from a gas directly to a solid?
8. What is the size of a typical cloud droplet?
9. What is the size of condensation nuclei?
10. What is the size of a typical rain drop?
11. What is the size of a large rain drop?
12. How many times larger is a typical rain drop than a cloud droplet?
13. Why are high clouds so thin and wispy?
14. Which form of precipitation starts off as ice, melts into liquid
water, and then freezes only when it touches a cold surface?
15. Which form of precipitation starts off as ice, melts into liquid
water, and then freezes before it touches the surface?
16. Which form of precipitation starts off as ice, melts into liquid water?
17. Which form of precipitation starts off as ice, moves up and down through a large
cloud constantly re-freezing & thawing, until it has enough mass to drop?
18. Which process of the formation of precipitation
starts off with ice crystals forming?
19. Which process of the formation of precipitation starts off
with super-cooled cloud droplets hitting each other?
20. Water vapor that condenses on objects which give off enough heat to
lower their temperature below the point where it saturates, is called:
21. What kind of fog forms in San Francisco bay?
22. What kind of fog forms in the Napa valley?
23. What is water that only freezes below 0ºC called?
24. What is formed when warm air is giving up heat
because of colder it comes into contact with?
25. What is formed when clear skies at night will allow heat to leave
the planet, causing the ground & air right above it to cool quickly?
26. What materials readily attracts cloud droplets?
27. What materials attracts cloud droplets only when the air is 100% saturated?