Author Question: The dry adiabatic rate is ____ greater than the moist adiabatic rate. a. never b. sometimes c. ... (Read 75 times)

Deast7027 · **on:** Jul 13, 2018

The dry adiabatic rate is ____ greater than the moist adiabatic rate.
a. never
b. sometimes
c. always
d. most of the time
e. half the time

Question 2

The difference between moist and dry adiabatic rates is due to the fact that
a. saturated air is always unstable.
b. an unsaturated air parcel expands more rapidly than a saturated air parcel.
c. moist air weighs less than dry air.
d. latent heat is released by a rising parcel of saturated air.
e. moist air weighs more than dry air.