Exam 6: Atmospheric Moisture

Relative humidity is "relative" to ________.

The rainiest portion of South America is the ________.

Over the Earth, regions of heavy precipitation normally experience ________ variability.

Most of the wettest areas around the world are located in the ________.

Which of the following is most closely associated with unstable air?

Buoyant air will rise until it ________.

Rising air, warmed by the release of latent heat, cools at a rate called ________.

Convective precipitation is common in the Arctic winters.

Coastal regions usually receive more precipitation than interior zones.

The term sleet means the same thing as hail in the United States.

An upslope fog is also known as a(n) ________ fog.

The American states with the highest average annual incidence of fog are located on ________.

________ is the critical temperature at which saturation is reached.

The stability of rising air is determined by its temperature relationship to the surrounding air.

In the atmosphere, liquid water collects around minute particles called

The saturated adiabatic lapse rate is a lesser lapse rate than the dry adiabatic lapse rate. This is because ________.

Hailstones grow in size when falling in a cloud and decrease in size when rising in a cloud.

Which of the following refers to the evaporation that would occur if the ground at the location was sopping wet all the time?

Clouds of vertical development include ________.

Global dimming might now be DECREASING because of the lessening of ________ in the atmosphere.