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In a sky filled with scattered cumulus humilis clouds, rising motions are found ____ the clouds and sinking motions are found ____ the clouds.
   a. between; above
   b. under; between
   c. under; under
   d. between; between
   e. above; under

Question 2

Which process below will change a moist layer of stable air into a deck of low stratocumulus clouds?
   a. mixing
   b. lifting
   c. cooling the surface
   d. heat the top of the layer
   e. subsidence

Question 3

Which condition below is necessary for a layer of altostratus clouds to change into altocumulus?
   a. The top part of the cloud deck cools while the bottom part warms.
   b. Temperature increases with increasing altitude in the layer.
   c. The cloud layer becomes more stable.
   d. The cloud layer becomes clear.
   e. The nuclei types within the cloud have to change.

Question 4

An example of orographic clouds would be
   a. cumulus clouds produced by surface heating.
   b. rotor clouds.
   c. lee-wave clouds.
   d. clouds that form on the upwind slope of a mountain.
   e. pileus clouds.

Question 5

An example of orographic clouds would be clouds
   a. forming over a warm ocean current.
   b. forming on the windward slope of a mountain.
   c. forming behind a jet airplane.
   d. formed by surface heating.
   e. forming on the leeward side of a mountain.

Question 6

What transfers heat upward into the atmosphere?
   a. cloud streets
   b. billows
   c. thermals
   d. subsidence inversions
   e. pockets of saturated air

Question 7

Suppose the surface air temperature is 66F. If the base of a cumulus congestus cloud directly above you is 2,000 feet, what would be the approximate temperature at an altitude of 5,000 feet above you inside the cloud? (Hint: the dry adiabatic rate is 5.5F per 1,000 feet, the moist adiabatic rate is 3.0F per 1,000 feet.)
   a. 55F
   b. 49F
   c. 46F
   d. 41F
   e. 32F

Question 8

If you were to take a trip during the summer from Ohio to Nevada, you would most likely observe that afternoon cumulus clouds ____ as you travel west.
   a. have higher cloud bases
   b. are larger
   c. form earlier in the day
   d. disappear
   e. form later in the day

Question 9

In a rising unsaturated thermal, the dew-point temperature
   a. increases at a slower rate than the parcel temperature.
   b. decreases at the same rate as the parcel temperature.
   c. decreases at a slower rate than the parcel temperature.
   d. increases at a faster rate than the parcel temperature.
   e. always remains the same.

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