Transcript Ch 23 & 24 Review answers

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
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Advection fog
Cirrus clouds
Stratus clouds
Cumulus clouds
Radiation fog
Radiosonde
Hurricane
Tornado
Maritime polar
Thunderstorm
Type of air masses
Radar
Anemometer