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Questions for HUMIDITY 1

Answer the following questions

1. When water evaporates into unsaturated air
2. A parcel of moist but not saturated air rises due to adiabatic effects. Which of the following changes?
3. The difference between temperature and dewpoint is greater in
4. Relative humidity
5. The process by which water vapour is transformed directly into ice is known as
6. When a given mass of air descends, what effect will it have on relative humidity?
7. Relative humidity at a given temperature is the relation between
8. Relative humidity
9. The dewpoint temperature
10. In which of the following changes of state is latent heat released?
11. The dewpoint temperature
12. Dew point is defined as
13. How does relative humidity and the dewpoint in an unsaturated air mass change with varying temperature?
14. In which layer is most of the atmospheric humidity concentrated?
15. During the late afternoon an air temperature of +12°C and a dew point of +5°C were measured. What temperature change must occur during the night in order to induce saturation?
16. Which of the following is the definition of relative humidity?
17. Relative humidity depends on
18. What does dewpoint mean?
19. How, if at all, is the relative humidity of an unsaturated air mass influenced by temperature changes?
20. The relative humidity of a sample air mass is 50%. How is the relative humidity of this air mass influenced by changes of the amount of water vapour in it?
21. The maximum amount of water vapour that the air can contain depends on the
22. Which of the following statements is true of the dew point of an air mass?
23. Which of the following changes of state is known as sublimation?