Geography Chapter 4

What are the three states water can exist?
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What are the three states water can exist?
Solid, liquid, or gas
When water becomes vapor?
Evaporation
The direct transition from solid to vapor?
Sublimination
The process in which water vapors crystalizes directly to ice?
Deposition
Total water realm of the Earth's surface, including the oceans, surface waters of the lands, ground waters, and water held in the atmosphere.
Hydrosphere
Moves water from the ocean and land to the atmosphere which then turns into precipitation.
Hydrologic cycle
When pants lose water through there leaf pores?
Transpiration
The combined water flow to the atmosphere by evaporation from soil and transpiration from plants is called?
Evapotranspiration
Forms in warm clouds by the coalescence of water droplets and in cool clouds by ice crystallization.
Precipitation
3 fates of precipitation
Evaporate and return to the atmosphere as water vapor

It can sink into the soil and then into the surface rock below

It can run off the land
The amount of water vapor in the airHumidityCompares the amount of water vapor present to the maximum amount that the air can hold at that temperature.Relative humidityHow can relative humidity in the atmosphere change?The atmosphere can directly gain or lose water vapor A change in temperatureThe actual quantity of water vapor held by a parcel of air?Specific humidityspecific humidity is largest?At the equatorial zonesDew point temperatureThe temperature at which air with a given humidity will reach saturation when cooled without changing its pressure?Ways to describe the water vapor content in the air?dew point Specific Humidity Relative humidityAtmospheric pressure decreases as altitude_________IncreasesA process in which the temperature of a parcel of air changes in response to a change in atmospheric pressure.Adiabatic processFor a rising or descending parcel of air that does not contain liquid or solid water, the temperature changes at the?dry adiabatic lapse rateWhy is it called dry adiabatic lapse rate?because there is no condensation or evaporation as a result of the change in temperature or pressure.Once an air parcel reaches saturation, it cools at a rate called?Moist adiabatic lapse rateA tiny bit of solid matter, or dust particle in which atmosphere on which water vapor condenses to form a water droplet?Condensation nucleus4 cloud familiesCirriform clouds Stratiform clouds Cumulalitive clouds Nimbus cloudsCloud layer on or close to the earth's surface?FogType of fog formed at night usually due to a drop in temperatures?Radiation FogWhen a warm, moist air layer moves across a cold surface, commonly occurs in mountains and valleysAdvection fog4 ways air can move upwards?through orographic, convective, convergent, or frontal liftingWhen a current of moist air is forced upwards over mountain rangesorographic precipitationPrecipitation that is induced when warm, moist air is heated at the grounds surface rises, cools, and condenses to form water droplets, raindrops, and eventually rainfall.Convective precipitationRain drops that have been chemically acidified by pollutants?Acid Rain