Geography Final | GEOG - Geography, Quizzes of Geography

Download Geography Final | GEOG - Geography and more Quizzes Geography in PDF only on Docsity! TERM 1 71% Water, 29% Land DEFINITION 1 The amount of water that covers the earthvs amount of land. TERM 2 Outgrassing DEFINITION 2 The process by which water vapor and water emerge from the layers deep within and below the crust TERM 3 Eustasy DEFINITION 3 Refers to the global sea level condition. TERM 4 2.78% Freshwater DEFINITION 4 Refers to the amount of freshwater on earth, which comes from lakes, rivers, and streams. TERM 5 Sublimation DEFINITION 5 Refers to the direct change from ice to water vapor or water vapor to ice. TERM 6 Deposition DEFINITION 6 Water vapor that attaches directly to an ice crystal TERM 7 Latent Heat DEFINITION 7 The heat involved in the phase change of water and is hidden within the structure of water. TERM 8 Humidity DEFINITION 8 The water vapor in the air. TERM 9 Relative humidity DEFINITION 9 A ratio expressed as a percentage of the amount of water vapor that is actually in the air compared to the maximum water vapor possible in the air at a d=given temp. TERM 10 Saturation DEFINITION 10 Happens when air is at 100% relative humidity, when the rate of evaporation and the rate of condensation--the net transfer of water molecules--reach equilibrium. TERM 21 Cumulous Clouds DEFINITION 21 Appear bright and puffy, cottonball clouds. They do not cover the sky, the float in infinite varied shapes. TERM 22 Stratocumulous Clouds DEFINITION 22 Patches of lumpy, grayish, low-level clouds TERM 23 Altocumulous Clouds DEFINITION 23 represent a broad category of clouds. Occurs in many different styles: patchy rows,wave patterns. TERM 24 Cumulonimbus Clouds DEFINITION 24 Towering giant clouds are thunderheads because of their shape. TERM 25 Fog DEFINITION 25 Cloud layer on the ground, with visibility restricted to less than 3300 ft. The presence of it tells us the air temp and the dew point temp at ground level are nearly identical indicating saturated conditions. TERM 26 Advection fog DEFINITION 26 When air in one place migrates to another place where conditions are right for saturation. EX: When warm, moist air overlays cooler ocean currents, lake surfaces, or snow masses, the layer of migrating air directly above the surface becomes chilled to the dew point. TERM 27 Evaporation Fog DEFINITION 27 When cold air lies over the warm water of a lake, an ocean surface, or even a swimming pool. Forms as water molecules evaporate from the water surface into the cold overlying air, effectively humidifying the air to saturation. TERM 28 Upslope Fog DEFINITION 28 Forms a stratus cloud at the condensation level of saturation. TERM 29 Valley Fog DEFINITION 29 Fog that settles in the low lying areas due to cool air being denser than warm air. TERM 30 Radiation Fog DEFINITION 30 Cooling of the surface chills the air layer directly above that surface to the dew point temp creating saturated conditions. TERM 31 Weather DEFINITION 31 Referred to as the short-term, day-to-day condition of the atmosphere, contrasted with climate. TERM 32 Continental Polar (cP) DEFINITION 32 Air masses form only in the Northern Hemisphere and are most developed in winter and cold weather conditions. (Cool, dry, moderately stable--Summer) (Cold dry, stable, and high pressure--Winter) TERM 33 Maritime Polar (mP) DEFINITION 33 Exist over the northern oceans. (Cool, moist, unstable conditions) TERM 34 Maritime Tropical (mT) DEFINITION 34 Warm, humid, stable to conditionally unstable. Comes from the East and Midwest. TERM 35 Convergent lifting DEFINITION 35 Air flows toward an area of low pressure.