Modern Earth Science Chapter 24 Vocabulary

Front 1

Describig a change in temperature resulting from the cooling of rising air and the warming of sinking air.

Back 1

Adiabatic

Front 2

Condensation of water vapor that results from the coolig of warm, moist air as it moves across a cold surface.

Back 2

Advection Fog

Front 3

Decrease in the temperature of a mass of air that results as it moves over a cold surface.

Back 3

Advective Cooling

Front 4

Feathery cloud composed of ice crystals that has the highest altitude of any cloud in the sky.

Back 4

Cirrus Coud

Front 5

Addition of freezing nuclei to supercooled clouds in an attempt to induce or increase precipitation.

Back 5

Cloud Seeding

Front 6

Combination of different sized cloud droplets to form larger droplets.

Back 6

Coalescence

Front 7

Solid particles in the atmosphere, such as ice and dust,that provide the surfaces on which water vapor condenses.

Back 7

Condensation Nuclei

Front 8

Decrease in the temperature of a mass of air that results as the air rises and expands.

Back 8

Convective Cooling

Front 9

Thick, billowy cloud that forms above stratus clouds and below cirrus clouds.

Back 9

Cumulus Cloud

Front 10

Type of condensation formed when air that is in contact with a cool surface loses heat until it reaches saturation.

Back 10

Dew

Front 11

Temperature to which air must be cooled to become saturated.

Back 11

Dew Point

Front 12

Condensation nuclei with a crystalline structure like that of ice.

Back 12

Freezing Nuclei

Front 13

Ice crystals formed when the dew point is below 0 degrees C and water vapor directly enters the solid state.

Back 13

Frost

Front 14

Thick layer of sheet ice formed when rain freezes as it contacts a surface.

Back 14

Glaze Ice

Front 15

Type of precipitation in the form of lumps of ice.

Back 15

Hail

Front 16

Instrument used to measure relative humidity, based on the fact that human hair stretches as humidity increases.

Back 16

Hair Hygrometer

Front 17

Amount of water vapor in the atmosphere.

Back 17

Humidity

Front 18

Energy stored in molecules.

Back 18

Latent Heat

Front 19

Instrument used to measure relative humidity.

Back 19

Psychrometer

Front 20

Condensation of water vapor that results from the cooling of air that is in contact with the ground.

Back 20

Radiation Fog

Front 21

Instrument used to measure the amount of rainfall.

Back 21

Rain Gauge

Front 22

Ratio of the amount of water vapor in the air to the amount of water vapor the air can hold when saturated.

Back 22

Relative Humidity

Front 23

Describing air that contains all the water vapor it can hold at a specifc temperature.

Back 23

Saturated

Front 24

Ice pellets that form when rain falls through a layer of freezing air.

Back 24

Sleet

Front 25

Actual amount of moisture in the air.

Back 25

Specific Humidity

Front 26

Condensation of water vapor that results when cool air moes over warm water.

Back 26

Steam Fog

Front 27

Cloud with a sheetlike or layered form that is the lowest cloud in the sky.

Back 27

Stratus Cloud

Front 28

Process in which a solid changes directly into a gas, or a gas changes directly into a solid.

Back 28

Sublimation

Front 29

Process in which water droplets are induced to remain liquid at temperatures below 0 degrees C.

Back 29

Supercooling

Front 30

Condensation of wayer vapor that results from the lifting and adiabatic cooling of air rising up a slope of land.

Back 30

Upslope Fog