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Unit 2 Vocabulary quiz 4 2023-24

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10 questions
Choose the word that BEST matches the definition.
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Question 1
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Holding as much water or moisture as air can hold.

Question 2
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The process by which a gas, such as water vapor, becomes a liquid.

Question 3
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The amount of water vapor that is in the air.

Question 4
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A dark-based storm cloud capable of impressive vertical growth and producing heavy precipitation, lightning, and hail.

Question 5
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Rain that falls as rain but freezes into ice as soon as it hits a surface that’s temperature is lower than the freezing point of water.

Question 6
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Frozen ice pellets that form when snow crystals melt as they hit warm air, then refreeze when the raindrops fall through a layer of freezing air.

Question 7
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Narrow bands of strong wind in the upper atmosphere that follow the boundaries between warm and cold air masses and generally blow from west to east across the globe.

Question 8
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Balls of ice that form in updrafts of air in cumulonimbus clouds.

Question 9
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The percentage of water vapor that is in a volume of air compared to the maximum amount of water vapor that the air can hold.

Question 10
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A large body of air where temperatures and moisture content are constant or the same throughout.