SCIENCE TEST 8

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  1. 3. A LACK OF PRECIPITATION THAT AFFECTS AN AREA'S CROPS IS CALLED AN ___________DROUGHT
  2. 4. PROCESS THAT OCCURS WHEN A LIQUID BECOMES A GAS
  3. 6. THE MOVEMENT OF WATER FROM THE AIR TO THE EARTH'S SURFACE AND BACK IS THE WATER CYCLE OR ______ CYCLE
  4. 7. this type of cloud forms when moist air rises slowly and unevenly.
  5. 10. the type of front that has a cooler air mass behind, a warmer air mass ahead, and an even warmer air mass above, is a cold occlusion.
  6. 12. THE AREA OF THE SURFACE OVER WHICH AN AIR MASS FORMED IS ITS ________
  7. 16. MID-LEVEL CLOUDS THAT HAVE A PUFFY APPEARANCE AND OFTEN APPEAR AS ROWS
  8. 17. THIS TYPE OF FOG OCCURS WHEN WIND HEATED BY WARM OCEAN WATER BLOWS OVER COOL OCEAN WATER.
  9. 20. ICE CRYSTALS, USUALLY IN GEOMETRIC SHAPES
  10. 21. WHEN EVAPORATION AND CONDENSATION ARE OCCURRING AT THE SAME RATE, THE AIR IS SAID TO BE ____.
  11. 25. THE ____________- FINDEISEN PROCESS IS THE PROCESS IN WHICH RAIN FORMS FROM MELTED SNOWFLAKES
  12. 26. THE RATIO OF THE AMOUNT OF WATER IN THE AIR TO THE AMOUNT OF WATER IN SATURATED AIR
  13. 27. AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF HEAVY SNOW AND HIGH WIND
  14. 28. HAS LAYERS OF GLAZE AND RIME, AND FORMS AS BALLS OF ICE ARE BLOWN BY A THUNDERSTORM UPDRAFT
  15. 29. LEAST COMMON TYPE OF HIGH-LEVEL CLOUD
  16. 33. RAINDROPS THAT FREEZE ON THEIR WAY TO THE GROUND
  17. 34. ________ HEAT DISTRIBUTION IS ONE OF THREE MAJOR FATORS THAT CAUSE WEATHER
  18. 36. PROCESS BY WHICH FROST FORMS
  19. 38. THIS IS THE TYPE OF FRONT A FRONTAL CYCLONE BEGINS WITH
  20. 39. A CLOUD THAT HAS A LOW-LEVEL BASE AND A TOP COMPOSED OF ICE CRYSTALS
  21. 41. THE TEMPERATURE AT WHICH COOLING AIR BEGINS CONDENSING
  22. 42. Air mass that is formed over an ocean
  23. 43. MID-LEVEL CLOUDS KNOWN FOR COVERING THE SKY AND PRODUCING STEADY PRECIPITATION
  24. 44. BROWNISH HAZE THAT DEVELOPS AS COMPLEX MOLECULES ARE BROKEN DOWN INTO OZONE AND OTHER HARMFUL SUBSTANCES
  25. 45. A BRIEF BUT INTENSE SNOWFALL
  26. 47. WHEN AN AREA IS RECEIVING LESS PRECIPITATION THAN NORMAL, IT IS UNDERGOING A __________ DROUGHT
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  1. 1. PROCESS WHEREBY PLANTS RELEASE WATER INTO THE ATMOSPHERE FROM THEIR LEAVES
  2. 2. This kind of drought would place restrictions on when lawns may be watered.
  3. 5. THIS TYPE OF AIR MASS IS COLD AND DRY
  4. 8. TYPE OF FRONT FORMS WHEN A MARITIME POLAR AIR MASS PUSHES INTO A CONTINENTAL TROPICAL AIR MASS
  5. 9. type of clouds that when put in rows, form a pattern resembling fish scales. "A Mackerel Sky"
  6. 11. WATER VAPOR WHOSE TEMPERATURE HAS DROPPED BELOW THE FREEZING POINT IS SAID TO BE _____.
  7. 13. the state of the atmosphere at a certain time and place
  8. 14. TYPE OF PRECIPITATION THAT CONSISTS OF DROPS OF LIQUID WATER SMALLER THAN RAINDROPS
  9. 15. LIQUID PRECIPITATION THAT FREEZES WHEN IT HITS THE GROUND OR ANOTHER SUBSTANCE
  10. 18. RAINDROPS IN THESE AREAS ARE UNUSUALLY LARGE BECAUSE THEY STICK TOGETHER AND GROW LARGER
  11. 19. BILLOWY, LOW-LEVEL CLOUDS WITH FLAT BASES
  12. 22. PROCESS RESPONSIBLE FOR CLOUD FORMATION
  13. 23. TYPE OF SNOW THAT IS SMALL, POWDERY AND DOESN'T STICK TO OBJECTS.
  14. 24. 2 UNMOVING AIR MASSES OF DIFFERENT TEMPERATURES FORM A _______FRONT
  15. 30. THIS FORM OF PRECIPITATION CONSISTS OF LARGE DROPS OF LIQUID WATER
  16. 31. A HIGH-LEVEL CLOUD
  17. 32. LENS-SHAPED CLOUDS THAT OFTEN FORM NEAR MOUNTAINS ARE ________ CLOUDS
  18. 35. THIS FRONT FORMS WHEN A COLD FRONT OVERTAKES A WARM FRONT
  19. 37. TYPE OF FOG THAT FORMS WHEN AIR NEAR THE GROUND COOLS RAPIDLY ON A CLEAR NIGHT
  20. 40. the scientific term for a gas becoming a liquid
  21. 45. This type of fog is most likely to occur when a land breeze blows cold, dry air over the warm ocean
  22. 46. THIS TYPE OF AIR MASS IS WHERE A FRONTAL CYCLONE DRAWS ITS ENERGY FROM.