QUIZ

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1. What is the kind of cloud that has no temperatures below freezing any where in it?

2. What is the term is used for the object on which water vapor condenses?

3. There are two name for the processes which forms of ice crystals in the cloud. Name one of them.

4. What term is used for the fastest speed that can be obtained by a falling object?

5. What term is used for the forming of ice crystals when they freeze on contact with a surface whose temperaure is below freezing?

6. What shape do most snowflakes have?

7. What conditions the shape of the snowflake?

8.What is produced if a snowflake falls into warmer air, begins to melt then falls through sub freezing air and turns into ice?

9. What is it called when ice crystals collide and stick together to form a snowflake?

10. The wet and dry growth regimes should be associated with the formation of what form of precipitation?

Answers to the Last Game

1. What lapse rate is used if the air is not saturated?
ANSWER: dry adiabatic lapse rate

2. What lapse rate is used if the air is saturated?
ANSWER: moist adiabatic lapse rate

3. What term is used for changes in temperature that occur as one goes higher into the atmosphere?
ANSWER: environmental lapse rate

4. What kind of stability is there if the two adiabatic lapse rates are greater than the the temperature a packet of rising air?
ANSWER: absolute stability

5. What kind of stability is there if the two adiabatic lapse rates are less than the the temperature a packet of rising air?
ANSWER: absolutely unstable

6. What kind of stability is there if an unsaturated parcel of air returns to the surface but a saturated parcel continues to rise?
ANSWER: conditionally unstable

7. Air can be force up in a number of ways. What term is used for air being forced up when cold air pushes under warm air?
ANSWER: frontal lifting

8.What term is used for clouds that are going to produce heavy rain?
ANSWER: nimbus

9. What kind of cloud is almost invisible but tends to be noticed because it makes a "halo" about the sun or the moon?
ANSWER: cirrostratus

10. What phase of water is found in cirris clouds?
ANSWER: ice crystal