Exam 5: Condensation: Dew, Fog, and Clouds

Discuss the factors that determine whether a cloud can have a cooling effect or a warming effect on the atmosphere.

Fog is often described as a cloud that forms at ground level. In what ways are the formation of fog and clouds similar and different?

Which of the following describes a reasonably successful method of dispersing cold fog?

Which of the following clouds form in descending air?

Which of the following statements applies to satellite images taken of clouds at night?

In which of the following conditions does exhaled breath condense?

Advection fog is often observed along the Pacific coast during summer as westerly winds carry moist air toward the shore. Which of the following describes why this fog forms?

Which of the following cloud types is found at the highest elevation above the Earth's surface?

When radiation fog "burns off," in which direction does the fog tend to dissipate?

Which of the following terms refers a towering cloud that has yet to develop into a thunderstorm?

Which of the following is the main type of fog that forms along the Pacific coastline of North America?

-Which of the clouds sketched in the figure above can be referred to as a towering cumulus (cumulus congestus)?

Which of the following cloud types has the greatest vertical growth?

Which of the following terms refers to the cloud-like streamer that often forms behind an aircraft flying at high altitude?

Which of the following occurs when frost forms?

Which of the following expressions describes the dissipation of a fog layer?

Which of the following types of fog is most likely formed when the wind is blowing from the east at Calgary, Alberta?

A low, lumpy cloud layer that appears in rows, patches, or rounded masses is classified as which of the following cloud types?

Which of the following pairs of cloud types could be very similar in appearance?

Which of the following processes causes salty potato chips left outside in an uncovered bowl to turn soggy on a humid day?