Low-Altitude
These type of clouds are white, billowy clouds that resemble piles of cotton puffs with flat bases.
What are cumulus?
Mid level clouds have bases between 6,500 feet and _______ft.
What is 23,000 feet.
What is fog?
The movement of water from the earth's surface, into the air, and back to the surface.
What is the hydrologic cycle (or water cycle).
This type of front forms when a cold front overtakes a warm front.
What is an occluded front?
This type of towering cloud has a low-level base and either has a wispy top or produce lightening.
What is cumulonimbus?
These clouds (also called extended clouds) are sometimes classified as low-level clouds because they can also form below 6,500 feet.
What is nimbostratus?
This type of fog, most common during Autumn, occurs on clear nights when the ground quickly radiates heat into space, allowing a thick layer of air near the ground to cool below the dew point.
What is radiation fog?
Liquid or solid water falling to the earth's surface.
What is precipitation?
This type of front forms when a maritime polar air mass pushes into a continental tropical air mass.
What is a cold front?
These clouds often form a flat, gray layer of heavy clouds not far above the ground, appearing as a featureless, gray sheet that covers the whole sky.
What type of special cloud is almond-shaped?
What is lenticular cloud?
This type of fog is found in valleys.
What is valley fog?
Type of precipitation consisting of drops of liquid water smaller than raindrops.
What is drizzle?
An air mass that forms over the ocean is considered to be this type of air mass.
What is a maritime air mass?
The clouds are the most frequent clouds and form a low, heavy layer of puffy gray clouds.
What is stratocumulus?
These clouds are the least common type of high-level cloud, and look like tiny puffs of cotton in the upper troposphere.
What is cirrocumulus clouds?
Type of fog that develops when winds heated by warm ocean waters travel over cool ocean waters.
What is sea fog?
What meteorologists call an extended period of heavy snow and high wind.
What is a blizzard?
A front that has a cooler air mass behind, a warmer air mass ahead, and an even warmer air mass above.
Meteorologists classify clouds into ___ basic categories based on shape and height.
What is 10?
In the upper troposphere, where temperatures are very cold, airplanes often produce their own artificial clouds known as __________.
What are contrails?
A thick, brownish haze that results from complex molecules released into the air by cars, buses, trucks, lawn mowers, some factories, and even certain trees and other plants. (Like what you see above LA)
What is photochemical smog?
This is layers of glaze and rime, also forms as balls of ice that are blown by a thunderstorm updraft.
What is hail?
Two unmoving air masses of different temperatures form this type of front.
What is stationary fronts?