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Chapter Five: Questions
CHAPTER FIVE: QUESTIONS
1. When you talk about an adiabatic processes, what aspect of the process remains the same by definition?
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a. Volume b. Temperature c. Pressure d. Density
2. If you have warm air parcel and lift it to higher altitudes, what would happen to it?
a. It would cool and contract b. It would expand and warm up c. It would condense into clouds d. It would expand and cool
3. What is the wet adiabatic lapse rate for any air mass that has moisture in degrees Celsius per kilometer in elevation?
a. 1.5 b. 3.0 c. 4.5 d. 7.0
4. What is the altitude called when the bottom of the cloud layer can be seen, above which the air parcel is hundred percent condensed?
a. Equilibrium level b. Level of free condensation c. Level of free convection d. Lifting condensation level
5. Which type of cloud would you expect to be a mixed phase cloud?
a. Cumulonimbus b. Stratocumulus c. Stratus d. Cumulus
6. By what size factor will a raindrop be compared to the condensation nucleus it came from?
a. 5 times bigger b. 10,000 times bigger c. 100 times bigger d. 700 times bigger
7. Which type of ice crystallization forms without involving liquid water?
a. Immersion freezing b. Contact freezing c. Deposition freezing d. Homogeneous freezing
8. What is another name for a graupel?
a. Snow pellet b. Snowflake c. Hail d. Ice nucleus
9. Which type of frozen precipitation will you only see in the colder regions of the earth?
a. Ice crystals b. Ice pellets c. Snow grains d. Snowflakes
10. Which type of precipitation is dangerous to drivers because it results from supercooled liquid raindrops that freeze on contact with the earth?
a. Ice pellets b. Freezing rain c. Sleet d. Snow grains
