High Level
Mid-Level
Low-Level
Vertical
Wild Card
100

High level clouds are formed altitudes above this.

What is 20,000 feet?

100
Mid-level clouds are found between these altitudes.
What is between 6500 feet and 20,000 feet?
100
Low level clouds are found below this elevation.
What is 6,500 feet?
100
These two types of clouds are know as vertical clouds.
What are cumulus and cumulonimbus?
100
These are the clouds that produce snow.
What is Nimbostratus?
200
Clouds that are like very thin sheets and cover large parts of the sky.
What is Cirrostratus?
200
These clouds are made up of water droplets and appear gray and puffy in the sky.
What is altocumulus?
200
These are dark gray clouds that produce falling rain or snow.
What is Nimbostratus?
200
These clouds are called fair weather clouds and look like floating cotton.
What are cumulus?
200
Between stratus and cirrus clouds, this one is closer to the ground.
What is stratus?
300
Clouds that are thin and wispy and blown by high winds.
What is Cirrus?
300
These clouds are made up of water droplets and ice crystals and cover the sky before rain storms.
What is altostratus?
300
These clouds are gray and cover the entire sky often resulting in morning fog.
What are Stratus?
300
These clouds spread across the sky and reach up to an elevation of 39,000 feet.
What is cumulonimbus?
300
This prefix means "mid level clouds"?
What is Alto?
400
Clouds that look like small round puffs in the sky, similar to fish scales.
What is Cirrocumulus?
400
Mid-level clouds are made up of these two things.
What are water droplets and ice crystals?
400
The two types of low lying clouds.
What are stratus and nimbostratus?
400
These clouds bring lightening, thunder, tornadoes, and intense weather.
What are cumulonimbus?
400
These two types of clouds mean fair weather.
What are cumulus and cirrus?
500
These are formed on high level clouds because the temperatures above 20,000 feet are so cold.
What are ice crystals?
500
These clouds usually means there will be a thunderstorm later in the day.
What is altocumulus?
500
Low level clouds are made up of mostly this.
What water droplets?
500
These clouds have very distinct edges but appear to be broken apart in the sky.
What are cumulus?
500
The reason that cirrocumulus clouds are sometimes called mackeral clouds.
What is because they look like fish scales?
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