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The scientific term for a gas becoming a liquid.
Condensation
Any air mass that forms over the ocean.
Maritime
Which type of cloud creates a "mackerel sky" because they resemble fish scales?
cirrocumulus
Raindrops that freeze on their way to the ground form what?
Sleet
A brief but intense snowfall.
Snow squall
Would cooler temperatures increase or decrease the rate of condensation?
Increase
What process forms fog?
deposition
What type of front would occur is a maritime polar air mass pushed into a continental tropical air mass?
Cold front
What is the process whereby plants release water into the atmosphere?
transpiration
What is the least common type of high-level cloud?
cirrocumuls
What is the least common type of high-level cloud?
cirrocumuuls
When 2 cold fronts overtake a warm front, what forms?
an occluded front
What type of fog is formed when wind heated by warm ocean water blows over cool ocean water?
sea fog
What type of fog occurs due to adiabatic cooling of UPWARD moving air?
upslope fog
The boundary between two different air masses.
front
The brown haze that develops due to harmful substances in the atmosphere.
smog
