Earth Science 9: Water in the Atmosphere: Vocabulary Flash Cards

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Title: Earth Science 9: Water in the Atmosphere: Vocabulary
Description: Vocabulary for Chapter Nine, Water in the Atmosphere
Number of Cards: 25
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Author: jewishjewel16
Created: 2002-02-01
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    • Side 3
    • water moves from the interior of plants to the air by this process
    • transpiration
    • high, thin sheets of clouds composed of ice crystals
    • cirrostratus clouds
    • a mass of water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the air
    • cloud
    • the temperature at which the relative humidity is 100 percent
    • dew point
    • small droplets of slowly-falling rain
    • drizzle
    • these clouds appear as patches or layers of puffy, mid-level clouds
    • altocumulus clouds
    • flat, layered clouds between 2,000 m to 6,500 m
    • altostratus clouds
    • small particles of material, such as salt or smoke, around which tiny water droplets form
    • condensation nuclei
    • low layers of gray, sheetlike clouds
    • stratus clouds
    • vertical development clouds consist of these two types
    • cumulus
      cumulonimbus
    • these clouds are white and puffy
    • cumulus clouds
    • three types of high clouds
    • cirrus
      cirrocumulus
      cirrostratus
    • flat layers or sheets of clouds
    • stratus
    • freezing of supercooled water on airplane wings
    • icing
    • these large ice pellets begin as large raindrops in thunderstorms
    • hailstones
    • change from the solid state directly to the gaseous state
    • sublimation
    • small, rounded ice pellets formed when rain falls through a layer of cold air
    • sleet
    • to change from the solid to the liquid state
    • melt
    • any form of moisture falling from the atmosphere
    • precipitation
    • these clouds appear as small white flakes, and sometimes form a regular pattern called a mackerel sky
    • cirrocumulus clouds
    • the change from liquid to vapor
    • vaporization
    • these clouds are dark and flattened on the bottom but billowy on the top
    • stratocumulus clouds
    • process of changing a liquid to a vapor without boiling
    • evaporation
    • the change from vapor to liquid
    • condensation
    • high, thin, wispy clouds composed of ice crystals
    • cirrus (mares' tails)