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Chapter Test
This Chapter Test is a comprehensive set of questions that uses multiple ways to assess your comprehension of the chapter material.

This activity contains 15 questions.

Question 1
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Open Hint for Question 1 in a new window		 fog The fog forming over the lake in the photograph is probably ____ .
 
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Question 2
2 If a parcel of dry air has a temperature of 65°F at the surface is uplifted to 5,000 ft it will have a new temperature of
 
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Question 3
3 If the temperature of a parcel is 10oC and the air that surrounds it is 15oC the parcel will be ____ and probably ____.
 
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Question 4
4 If the lapse rate of the surrounding air is between the saturated and dry adiabatic rates the air is _____.
 
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Question 5
5 The presence of towering cumulus clouds indicates the air is ____.
 
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Question 6
6 As the amount of water vapor in the air increases, the dew point temperature _____.
 
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Question 7
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Open Hint for Question 7 in a new window		 If a parcel of air cools to its dew point temperature and continues to rise upward, it wil change temperature at a rate of
 
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Question 8
8 Absolute humidity is the amount of water vapor in a given volume of air.
   
 
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Question 9
9 If a parcel of air resists vertical movement, it is said to be stable.
   
 
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Question 10
10 The Bergeron process refers to precipitation by ice-crystal formation.
   
 
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Question 11
11 Stratus, stratocumulus, and nimbostratus are known as low clouds.
   
 
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Question 12
12 Adiabatic _____ occurs when air ascends while adiabatic _____ cooling occurs when air descends.
 
warming; cooling
cooling; warming
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Question 13
13 Match the terms with the definitions.
Using the pull-down menus, match each item in the left column to the corresponding item in the right column.
A specific humidity
B dew point
C relative humidity
D vapor pressure
E absolute humidity
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Question 14
14 Identify the clouds in the image below.

The letters A through I appear on an image associated with this question.

For each item below, use the pull-down menu to select the letter that labels the correct part of the image.
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Question 15
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To create paragraphs in your essay response, type <p> at the beginning of the paragraph, and </p> at the end.

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