GY 101 UA TEST 2 QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE 2026

GY 101 UA TEST 2 QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE 2026 A percentage relating the amount of water vapor present to the amount of water vapor the air can hold at a given temperature - Answers Relative Humidity The temperature at which air becomes saturated and condensation begins - Answers Dew Point What is the prefix for rain producing clouds? - Answers Nimbo- Does air rise or sink when it is Low Pressure? - Answers Rise Does air rise or sink when it is High Pressure? - Answers Sink Formed by the slow HORIZONTAL passage of relatively warm, moist, stable air over a colder surface - Answers Advection Fog What is the prefix associated with high level clouds? - Answers Cirro- What is the prefix associated with middle level clouds? - Answers Alto- Name the two precipitation formation processes - Answers Collision Coalescence Bergeron Process What temperature air is associated with Collision Coalescence? - Answers Warmer air (cool) What temperature air is associated with the Bergeron Process? - Answers Cold air Extremely heavy liquid precipitation with a fall rate of =5 in/hr - Answers Cloudburst Snow that is formed by the Bergeron Process in the clouds melts on its way down, and then refreezes before it hits the ground? - Answers Sleet What are the two most common cloud seeding materials? - Answers Dry ice Silver Iodide Name the three lapse rates associated with adiabatic temperature change and if they are constant or variable. - Answers Environmental Lapse Rate - Variable Dry Adiabatic Lapse Rate - Constant Wet Adiabatic Lapse Rate - Variable The altitude where a parcel of air will cool to its dew point temperature? - Answers Condensation Lifting Level What are the three units associated with atmospheric pressure? - Answers Millibars Hectopascals Inches of mercury Cold air is associated with what type of pressure? - Answers High Pressure Warm air is associated with what type of pressure? - Answers Low Pressure Moist air is associated with what type of pressure? - Answers Low Pressure Which is lighter, moist air or dry air? - Answers Moist Air Wind speed and direction are controlled by what three forces? - Answers Pressure gradient force Coriolis force Friction What type of pressure system is located near 30 degrees North and South? What is the name of it? - Answers High pressure system Subtropical High What type of land is associated with the Subtropical High? - Answers Deserts What is the name of the large low pressure system that migrates within the tropical latitudes and is associated with high precipitation? - Answers Inter Tropical Convergence Zone __________ are lines that connect equal points of pressure - Answers Isobars A high pressure system is associated with what type of pressure gradient and what type of winds? - Answers Gradual pressure gradient Light winds A low pressure system is associated with what type of pressure gradient and what type of winds? - Answers Steep pressure gradient Strong winds What causes the coriolis force? - Answers The rotation of Earth Which direction are winds deflected in the Northern hemisphere? - Answers Right Which direction are winds deflected in the Southern hemisphere? - Answers Left The balance between coriolis force and the pressure gradient force causes what type of winds? - Answers Geostrophic winds What are the 4 lifting mechanisms? - Answers Convection Convergence Frontal lifting Orographic lifting What is the standard sea level pressure? - Answers 1013.25 mb What rate is used to adjust different elevations to sea level? - Answers 10 mb/100 meters (True/False) The total water vapor in the atmosphere remains constant - Answers True - the total is constant but it can vary from place to place (True/False) There is greater evaporation over continents than oceans - Answers False - if it is over water all it is doing is evaporating (True/False) The majority of freshwater on the planet is found in ice - Answers True - 2/3 of freshwater is locked away in ice