18.1 Water in the Atmosphere

18.1 Water in the Atmosphere

Earth Science 9th Grade

Multiple Choice

What happens in a Sublimation?

• Change from Solid to a Gas

• Change from a liquid to a solid

• Change from gas to a solid

• change from solid to a liquid

Multiple Choice

What happens in a deposition?

• Change from Solid to a Gas

• Change from a liquid to a solid

• Change from gas to a solid

• change from solid to a liquid

Multiple Choice

Clouds are classified

based on form and height.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

_____ is defined as a cloud with its base at or very near the ground.

• Fog

• Cirrus

• Cumulus

• Stratus

Multiple Choice

The Bergeron process is a theory that relates the formation of precipitation to supercooled clouds, freezing nuclei, and the different saturation levels of ice and liquid water. The formation of SNOW

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

drops of water that fall from a

cloud and have a diameter of

at least 0.5 mm

• hail

• sleet

• rain

Multiple Choice

small particles of ice

• sleet

• hail

• rain

Multiple Choice

ice pellets with multiple layers

• hail

• sleet

• rain