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Ch. 23 & 24 Review Question 1 • What is the mass of water vapor contained in a given volume of air? • Absolute humidity Question 2 • The rates of condensation and evaporation must be ____________ to achieve the dew point temperature. • Equal Question 3 • What is the process by which the temperature of an air decreases as the air mass moves over a cold surface? • Advective cooling Question 4 • The condensation level is marked by what? • Base of the clouds Question 5 • Fog that is commonly seen along coasts in which warm, moist air over the water moves over the land is what? • Advection fog Question 6 • What is the phases change that can occur when water ABSORBS energy? • Liquid to gas Question 7 • When a body of moist air combines with another body of moist air with a different temperature this is called what? • Mixing Question 8 • -nimbus stands for what in regards to clouds. • Rain producing Question 9 • Where would air contain the most moisture? • Near a large body of water (ocean) Question 10 • Name the eastward air mass that has the greatest affect on Europe? • Maritime polar atlantic Question 11 • Air masses that produce cool, dry air are called what? • Continental polar Question 12 • Radar uses what to determine the velocity and location of objects? • Radio waves Question 13 • Weather models use what to provide information? • Doppler radar & satellite images Question 14 • What is a storm that forms in a cold front by creating an area of low pressure with rotating winds that moves toward the rising air of the central low-pressure region? • Midlatitude cyclone Question 15 • What is used on a weather map to convey information? • Colors and symbols Question 16 • Which devices are used to measure loweratmospheric weather conditions? • Thermometer, wind vane, and barometer Question 17 • Meteorologists try and control many weather conditions, however, what don’t they try and control? • cyclones Question 18 • Storms along a warm front are characterized by what type of conditions? • Precipitation over a large area and sometimes violent Question 19 • An air mass that bring in dry, warm air is called what? • Continental tropical Question 20 • A front that forms when a cold air mass overtakes a warm air mass and lifts the warm air mass off the ground and over another air mass is called what? • Occluded front Vocabulary to know • • • • • • • • • • • • • Advection fog Cirrus clouds Stratus clouds Cumulus clouds Radiation fog Radiosonde Hurricane Tornado Maritime polar Thunderstorm Type of air masses Radar Anemometer