What is a cloud?
What does air do as it rises?
Cools
What is Altitude?
How high something is above the earths surface.
What are clouds required for?
Precipitation
Cumulo Means?
Heap
What does a Cirrus cloud look like?
High, thin, wispy and feathery.
Water condenses around solid objects such as?
Dust or smoke
What is considered low level?
6,000 Feet or less
What do clouds indicate?
What type of atmospheric processes are happening
Strato Means?
Spread out or layer
What does a stratus cloud look like?
Low, flat sheets of cloud that looks like one huge cloud covering the entire sky.
When water condenses around an object what does it form?
Water Droplets or Ice Crystals
What is considered middle level?
More than 6,000 feet less than 20,000 feet.
What do clouds help redistribute?
Extra heat from the equator to the poles.
Cirro means?
Curl or wisp of hair
Can you know how high a cloud is by looking up?
No
How many basic cloud types are there?
Three!
What is considered high level?
20,000 feet or more
Clouds help regulate earths energy balance by?
Reflection and scattering solar radiation and by absorbing earth's infrared energy.
Alto means?
Higher
A cloud that contains sleet, snow, rain or hail
Nimbus or Nimbo Cloud
When you see a cloud what can you look at to help you determine what type of cloud it is?
It's physical appearance and how high it is above earth
Stratus clouds are called what when they are at the middle level?
Altostratus
What do Cumulus Clouds indicate?
Surface heating and atmospheric turbulence
Nimbo means?
Rain
Name the two types of low level clouds.
Stratus and Nimbostratus