QUIZ

Week Six. Progress is shown, Nearly 1/2 there!

Remember, if you get the answer wrong, the computer will insult you. But hidden in the insult is a clue to the correct answer! The question of the hour is "Can you find the hidden clue?????"



1. On what does water condense to form fog or other clouds?

2. What term is used for small particles in the air that repel water and block condensation (like oil or gasoline)?

3. What term is used for a thermodynamic process in which heat neither enters nor leaves the system?

4. What kind of fog results from the ground loosing heat at night?

5. When warm air from the Pacific moves over a cold water current and condensation occurs, what kind of fog forms?

6. Warm air from the Gulf of Mexico move westward across the Great Plains which rise as the approach the Rocky Mountains condenses and forms fog. What kind of fog forms?

7. In which season is evaporation fog more likely to form?

8.What kind of fog forms when rain falls from a warm air mass through a colder air mass?

9. At what number of meters does visibility have to become limited to be called "fog"?

10. What is fog called which becomes dangerous when it condenses on sulfer oxide or other oxides?

Answers to the Last Game

1. What is the condition that occurs when the skin freezes?
ANSWER: frostbite

2. What is the cycle through which water goes as it circulates from one "sphere" to another?
ANSWER: hydologic

3. About what percent of the Earth's surface is covered by water?
ANSWER: 71%

4. What is it called when water changes from a vapor to a liquid phase (or state)?
ANSWER: condensation

5. What is it called when equal number of water molecules move into the air as return to liquid water?
ANSWER: saturation

6. Two things increase the speed of evaporation. Tell me either of them.
ANSWER: wind or temperature

7. What kind of humidity is shown by the mass of water vapor in a parcel relative to the volume of air?
ANSWER: absolute humidity

8.What kind of humidity is being measured when the mass of water vapor in the air is measured relative to the total mass of air?
ANSWER: specific humidity

9.What is the general term used for an instrument that measures humidity
ANSWER: hygrometer

10. The change of either of two things in the air will change the relative humidity. Once again, if you can write the term in the space
ANSWER: vapor content or temperature