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| If the water Vapor content of air remains constant, lowering air temperature cause what ? |
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| When the water-vapor content of air remains constant, lowering air temperature causes an increase in relative humidity, and raising air temperature causes a decrease in relative humidity |
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| What is true about warm, saturated air? |
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| Warm saturated air contains more water vapor then cold hair |
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| Compared to clouds, fogs are? |
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| Clouds result when air rises and cools. Fog is a cloud with its base at or near the ground |
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| Air that has reached its water vapor capacity is said to be? |
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| Hurricanes from in tropical waters between the latitude of what? |
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| 5 and 20 degrees north and south latitude |
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| What type of front form when the surface position of the front does not move? |
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| The process of converting a liquid to a gas is known as? |
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| The boundary that separates different air masses is called what? |
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| What is the first sign of an approaching warm front? |
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| The first sign is the appearance of cirrus clouds |
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| What is the dry adiabatic rate? |
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| Rate of cooling or heating in unsaturated air |
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| A low cloud that blankets the sky and often generates precipitation is called an? |
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| Which terms is used to describe clouds of middle height? |
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| The process by which water vapor changes directly into a solid is called? |
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