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What cloud is mostly in patches or narrow bands and has a silk-type appearance?
THE CIRRUS CLOUD
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100
Nimbus/Nimbo means
rain bearing cloud
100
Continuous moderate rain or snow
Nimbostratus
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100
how are Stratus clouds form
Stratus clouds form when warm air with moisture lifts up into the Earth's atmosphere.
Really 375 pionts
100
Alto means
medium level
200
Nimbos
200
Cirrus/cirro means
high up
200
What type of human activity leads to the formation of contrails?
turbulence generated by the engine exhaust
200
What clouds have hail storms, lightning, tornadoes, and heavy pour-downs?
Cumulonimbus
200
Dry-settled weather to rainy conditions. What cloud is it
Stratocumulus
300
When the sun is visible through this cloud, its outline is clearly discernible.
Stratus
300
Why is the sky blue?
Blue shifts spread out more than the red
300
How do cirrostratus clouds form?
when a broad layer of air is lifted by large-scale convergence
300
Why are the clouds white?
There are a million water droplets in a cloud, the scattered light interacts and combines to generate a white color
300
clouds in the low atomsphere are called what?
Stratus
400
sharp outlines that develop vertically in the form of rising mounds, and domes.
Cumulus
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400
Altocumulus - High, medium, or low
mid-level cloud
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400
What's the last thing that happens when a cloud is foaming?
The vapor becomes small water droplets and then a cloud is foamed.
400
Clouds that form in the middle are between where?
47,000-53,000
400
What are the two main ingredients required for the appearance of a cloud?
water vapor and condensation nuclei
500
Level sheets of thin clouds.
Altostratus
500
the first step of clouds forming
air rises in the atmosphere it gets cooler and is under less pressure
500
what are cirrocumulus clouds?
a rare cloud, forming ripples that may look like a honeycomb.
500
Do clouds form in high altitudes or low altitudes?
High Altitudes
really -45 points
500
Name the 3 clouds that could be out during fair weather (warm weather)
Cirrus, cirrocumulus, cumulus
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