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Title: Water in The Atmosphere
Description: Science Final
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Author: ameser11211
Created: 2010-03-04
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    • Question
    • Answer
    • 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