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Title:	Water in The Atmosphere
Description:	Science Final
Number of Cards:	184
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Author:	ameser11211
Created:	2010-03-04
Tags:	4 atmosphere domain in science water
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- Side 3

- WATER VAPOR
  invisible
- INVISIBLE GAS
- CONDENSATION
  steam
- CHANGE FROM WATER VAPOR TO LIQUID WATER
- SPECIFIC HUMIDITY
- ACTUAL AMOUNT OF WATER VAPOR IN THE AIR @ GIVEN TIME
- SATURATED HUMIDITY
  rate
- WATER VAPOR = RATE OF EVAPORATION
  
  SATURATED HUMIDITY
  rate of evaporation
- RELATIVE HUMIDITY
- HOW NEAR AIR IS TO ITS MAXIMIM CAPACITY FOR HOLDING WATER VAPOR
- PSYCHROMETER
- INSTRUMENT USED TO MEASURE HUMIDITY
- EXAMPLE OF CONDENSATION
- IF THE AIR CONTINUES TO COOL PAST THE POINT OF SATURATION CONDENSATION OCCURS
- EXAMPLE OF WATER VAPOR
- WATER VAPOR MAY CONDENSE INTO DROPLETS FORMING A CLOUD -OR-FOG
- DEW POINT
- TEMPERATURE @ WHICH SATURATION OCCURS & CONDENSATION BEGINS
  condense into water, called dew.
- HOW DOES 'DEW' FORM
  droplets
- FROM DROPLETS OF CONDENSED WATER VAPOR
  dew
  droplets water vapor
- 2 CONDITIONS ARE NECESSARY FOR WATER VAPOR TO CONDENSE
- 1.) AIR MUST BE MATERIAL FOR WATER VAPOR TO CONDENSE ONTO
  
  2.) AIR MUST BE CLOSE TO -OR- BELOW ITS DEW POINT
- CONDENSATION NUCLEI
- WHEN FOG -OR- CLOUDS FORM, THE WATER VAPOR IS CONDENSING ON TINY PARTICLES
- SUPERSATURATED
- AIR COOLED BELOW ITS DEW POINT
- NAME 3 WAYS THAT AIR MAY COOL -OR- LOSE HEAT
- -CONTACT W/COLDER SURFACE
  -RADIATION OF HEAT
  -MIXING W/ COLDER AIR
  -EXPANSION AS IT RISES
- WHY DURING THE NIGHT, DO SURFACES BECOME COOLER THAN THE AIR
- THEY LOSE HEAT MORE RAPIDLY THAN AIR DOES
- HOW DOES FOG FORM
- AS WATER VAPOR CONDENSES IN THE AIR, TINY DROPLETS FILL THE AIR
- WHEN DOES FOG FORM
- COLD SURFACE COOLS THE WARM MOIST AIR ABOVE IT
- HOW DOES RADIATION FOG FORM
- NIGHT SKY IS CLEAR;THE GROUND LOSES HEAT RAPIDLY THROUGH RADIATION
- COMMON IN RIVER VALLEYS AND NEAR LAKES
- HOW DOES AVECTION FOG FORM
- WHEN ITS WARM & MOIST; WIND BLOWS OVER SNOW-COVERED GROUND
- HOW DO CLOUDS FORM
- WHNE AIR COOLS TO ITS DEW POINT
- FORM @ ANY ALTITUDE
- WHAt ARE CLOUDS MADE OF
- WATER DROPLETS
- WHAT ARE THE 3 BASIC 'FORMS' OF CLOUDS
- -CUMULOUS
  -STRATUS
  -CIRRUS
- HOW DOES THE SHAPE OF THE CLOUD SHOW
- HOW AIR IS MOVING THROUGH IT
- HOW ARE CLOUDS 'CLASSIFIED'
  height
  shape
- -HEIGHT//ALTITUDE((LOW,MIDDLE,
  HIGH..)
  
  -THEIR SHAPE
- WHAT ARE THE 4 'TYPES' OF CLOUDS
- -LOW
  -MIDDLE
  -HIGH
  -CLOUDS OF VERTICAL
- WHAT CLOUD IS FORMED BY HORIZONTAL AIR MOVEMENTS
- STRATIFORM CLOUDS
  ()LAYERED CLOUDS))
- WHAT CLOUD IS FORMED BY VERTICAL AIR MOVEMENTS
- CUMULIFORM
  ((GROW UPWARDS IN GREAT PUFFS))
- WHERE DO CLOUDS HAVE HIGH ALTITUDES
- ALONG THE EQUATOR & LOWER IN THE POLAR REGIONS
- DESCRIBE 'CUMULUS' CLOUDS
  cool whip
- FLUFFY CLOUDS W/FLAT BASES
- DESCRIBE 'STARTUS' CLOUDS
- CLOUDS THAT FORM IN LAYERS
  ((LAYERED, LOW CLOUDS))
  Flat and straight = stratus
- DESCRIBE 'CIRRUS' CLOUDS
  circus bomb
- HIGH FEATHERY ICE CLOUDS
  ((THIN W/ FKAT FLUFF ENDS))
- CONDENSATION LEVEL
- ATMOSPHEREIC LEVEL WHICH CONDENSATION OCCURS
- DRY-ADIABATIC LEVEL
  (rate air)
- RATE @ WHICH AIR COOLS AS IT RISES
  DRY-ADIABATIC LEVEL
  (rate air)(cools)
- 'MOIST'-ADIBIATIC LEVEL
- RATE @ WHICH 'SATURATED' AIR COOLS AS IT RISES
- HOW DO CUMULONIMBUS CLOUDS FORM
- MOIST AIR RISES & COOLS TO ITS DEW POINT
- HOW DO LAYERED CLOUDS FORM
- STABLE AIR; AIR CANT MOVE UP OR DOWN SO IT SPREADS OUT HORIZONTALLY
- AS WARM AIR RISES....
- IT EXPANDS & ITS TEMPERATURE & DEW POINT DECREASE
- PRECIPITATION
- ANY FORM OF WATER THAT FALLS FROM A CLOUD
- SLEET
- FROZEN RAIN DROPS
- FREEZING RAIN
- SUPER-COOLED RAINDROPS
- HAIL
- IRREGULAR CLUMPS OF ICE
- NAME 5 TYPES OF PRECIPITATION
- -HAIL
  -SLEET
  -SNOW
  -RAIN
  -FREEZING RAIN
- GLACIER
  compacted
- LARGE MASS OF COMPACTED SNOW & ICE
- SNOW LINE
- LOWEST ELEVATION
- FIRN
  ice material
- BURIED SNOW; COMPACTED;COMPRESSED & RECYSTALIZES ICE MATERIAL
- CONTINENTIAL GLACIER
- GLACIER THAT MOVES W/ IN VALLEY WALLS
- ICE CAP
- GLACIER IS LESS THAN 50,00 SQUARE KILOMETERS IN AREA
- CREVASSE
  steep
- CREVASSE
  =steep downwards slope
  STEEP DOWNWARDS SLOPE; GREAT FISSURES CARACKS
- ICE FRONT
- GLACIERS THAT LOSE ICE THROUGH MELTING
- CALVING
- GREAT BLOBKS BREAK OFF TO BECOME ICEBERG
- TILL
- MATERIAL DEPOSITED BY GLACIAL ICE
- MORAINE
- total OF GLACIAL TILL
- STRATIONS
- SAND PEBBLES AND SHARP BOULDERS LEAVE LONG PARALELL
- GLACIAL VALLEY
- U SHAPED VALLEY
- CIRQUE
  cirrular
- CIRQUE
  STEMI-cirrular BASIN
- ERRATIC
- LARGE BOULDERS TRANSPORTED BY GLACIERS
- OUTWASH
  wash=water
- wash=water
  
  MATERIAL DEPOSITED BY GLACIAL MELTWATER
- DRUMLIN
- GROUP OF HILLS;LONG SMOOTH CANOE SHAPED
- ESKER
- WINDING RIDGES; FORM WHEN A GLACIER MELTS
- OUTWASH PLAIN
- FRONT OF GLACIERS ;OVERLAP;FORM FLAT AREA
- KAME
- SMALL CONE-SHAPED HILLS OF SAND & GRAVEL
- KETTLE
  kelloggs cereal
- BOWL-SHAPED HALLOWS FOUND IN MORAINS 7 OUTWASH PLAINS
- BEACH
- AREA OF SHORE BETWEEN THE HIGH-TIDE LEVEL & LOW-TIDE LEVEL
- DEFLATION
- REMOVAL OF LOOSE ROCK PARTICLES BY THE WIND
- DESERT PAVEMENT
- REMAING SURFACE; AFTER DESERT SANDS ARE BLOWN AWAY
- DUST STORM
  sand
- STRONG STEADY WINDS;LIFT SILT & CLAY FROM TOPSOIL
- FETCH
- LENGTH OF OPEN WATER OVER WHCICH WIND BLOWS
- FJORD
- STEEP-SIDED BAYS
- LOESS
- WHEN ERODED;CLIFF-LIKE SLOPES
- PERIOD
- TIME IT TAKES ONE WAVELENGTH TO PASS A CERTAIN POINT
  SPEED=WAVELENGTH/ PERIOD
- REFRACTION
- WAVE REACHES SHALLOW WATER;SWING UNTIL IT APPROACHES THE SHORELINE
  ((SWINGING -OR- BENDING
- SANDBAR
- CURRENT CARRIES ENOUGH SAND AND FORMS SANDBAR
  SEDIMENTS CARRIED INLAND
- SAND DUNE
- HILLS OF SAND DEPOSITED BY WINDS
- VENTIFACT
- SMALL ROCKS INTO SHAPES
  BLASTS OF DESERT SAND
  GRIND BOULDERS
  AND SMALL ROCKS INTO SHAPES
- WAVE HEIGHT
- DIFFERENCE BETWEEN;WAVES HEIGHT POINT & LOW POINT