1. what is true about relative humidity?
a. it indicates how near the air is to saturation
b. it indicates the actual quantity of water vapor in the air
c. is is the general term used to describe the amount of water vapor in the air
d. it is the temperature to which a parcel of air would need to be cooled to reach saturation
2. what is the dry adiabatic rate?
a. 3.0*c/100 meters
b. 1*c/100 meters
c. 5.0*c/1,000 meters
d. 0.5*c/1,000 meters
3. weather-producing fronts are parts of storm systems called
a. middle-latitude cyclones
b. hurricanes
c. tropical storms
d. tornadoes
4. cool air acts as a barrier over which warmer, less dense air rises, in a process known as
a. divergence
b. frontal wedging
c. orographic lifting
d. subduction
5. which of the following is an example of condensation nuclei?
a. dust
b. smoke
c. salt particles
d. all of the above
6. which cloud type is confined to the middle height range?
a. cirrostratus
b. cumulonimbus
c. altostratus
d. cirrus
7. which of the following processes can produce either rain or snow?
a. the bergeron process
b. the collision-coalescence process
c. both the bergeron process and the collision-coalescence process
d. none of the above
8. which type of precipitation consists of small clear-to-translucent ice particles?
a. rime
b. sleet
c. hail
d. glaze