GGR206H1- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 31 pages long!)
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Permeability capacity of a rock to transmit a fluid. Evaporation the process by which any liquid is changed into gas. Environmental lapse rate the actual decrease in temperature with an increase in altitude through the troposphere. When liquid water is evaporated to form water vapour, heat is absorbed. This helps to (cid:272)ool ea(cid:396)th(cid:859)s su(cid:396)fa(cid:272)e: this (cid:862)late(cid:374)t heat of (cid:272)o(cid:374)de(cid:374)satio(cid:374)(cid:863) is released again when water vapour condenses to form cloud water. This source of heat helps drive the updrafts in clouds and precipitation systems, which then cause even more water vapour to condense into cloud, and more cloud water and ice to form precipitation. Sensible heat is the energy required to change the temperature of a substance with no phase change. Latent heat is the energy absorbed by or released from a substance during a phase change from a gas to liquid/solid or vice-versa.
