Directions: Answer each of the following questions by writing a response only in the area provided. The answers may be found in your notes on chapter three.

1. What is evaporation?







2. What is humidity?







3. Which temperatures can hold more water
vapor?




4. What happens when air cools?





5. What is condensation?








6. What happens if the liquid droplets become large enough?





7. What are the four forms of precipitation?
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8. Where do the greatest amounts of precipitation fall?




9. Where do the smallest amounts of precipitation fall?





10. What is elevation?





11. What happens to temperature as elevation increases?





12. What is the orographic effect?







13. When does the orographic effect occur?






14. What does the mountain force the moist
air to do?





15. What happens to the rising air?

16. Which side of the mountain receives
precipitation?





17. What happens to the air as it moves down
the leeward side?







18. What is the drier area on the leeward side called?






19. What commonly forms on the leeward side?






20. What are storms?






21. When do extratropical storms form?






22. What determines how large extratropical storms will be?





23. What are two examples of extratropical storms?
24. Which country experiences more tornadoes than any other country?






25. Why are tropical storms smaller than
extratropical storms?






26. Which tropical storm starts in the Atlantic
Ocean?






27. Which tropical storm starts in the western
Pacific Ocean?





28. Where do tropical storms occur?






29. What are two characteristics of tropical
storms?







30. What are four ways that climate and weather affect how people live?