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In our daily lives, we encounter many examples of water changing phase from one form to another. Attempt to explain, using scientific terms from the text, what is happening in each of these examples:

You can often see your breath on a cold day? Explain. (Note: Water vapor is clear, colorless, and INVISIBLE. You can't see water vapor.)

The inside of the windows in your house get wet when you are cooking or having a large gathering, espcially in winter. Explain.

You get out of the pool or lake on a hot day, and a slight breeze makes you cold. Explain.

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Dew point and relative humidity provide information about the moisture at a point in the atmosphere. Another measure, precipitable water vapor, indexes the total water content of an entire column of air. The depth of water would be measured if all the water in the air were to condense to a liquid. Looking at this map of precipitable water vapor, find the regions with the highest water content for the continental United States. Where are they? About how many inches of precipitable water are present? Where are the regions of low precipitable water vapor? What is the range in water content from highest to lowest? Express this as a percentage difference between the highest and lowest amounts.

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