About clouds
Cloud types
Keywords
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What is cloud?
Clouds consist of tiny water droplets, or ice particles, that are too light to fall to earth.
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How many main types of cloud are there?
How many main types of cloud are there?
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Where there is little vertical uplift, but the uplift is over a wide area, clouds form in layers and are known as ...
Stratus
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How many types of cloud produce precipitation?
Three
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Very high clouds could be in layers called ????????????
CIRROSTRATUS
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More vertical, but localized, uplift results in heaped ??????? clouds with flat bases and globular upper surfaces.
Cumulus
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What is density and vertical extent of the cloud if it white from below?
The cloud is thin and density is low
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Middle level cloud is prefixed by '????'.
ALTO
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Where condensation occurs at very high levels, wispy ?????? clouds are formed( made of crystals).
Cirrus
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What are the three types of clouds?
Stratus, cumulus, cirrus
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How do we call the biggest cloud?
Cumulonimbus
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According what clouds classified into three main types?
Their shapes
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How do we call the cloud, which can be up to 5000 meters tall?
Nimbostratus
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