What is "stratus"?
This medium altitude cloud often appears as puffy clouds in linear bands
What is altocumulus?
This is the minimum height that all high-altitude clouds form
What is 20,000 feet?
Clouds often form in areas of low pressure, or when air is pushed in this direction
What is up/upward?
This cloud is usually white and has a series of rounded rolls
What is the stratcumulus cloud?
Medium altitude clouds can be made up of water droplets or these frozen bits of H2O
What are ice crystals?
High altitude clouds often have this prefix in their name
What is cirro/cirrus?
All clouds are made up of these two materials
What is water vapor and dust particles?
This occurs when two large masses of air collide at Earth's surface
What is a weather front?
This cloud has individual cells and vertical rolls or towers.
What is the cumulus cloud?
All water vapor in clouds originates here
What is the earths surface?
Cumulonimbus clouds may grow from this type of cloud
What are cumulus clouds?
This cloud is composed of ice crystals and has a wispy appearance
What is the cirrus clouds
At a warm front, this air mass slides over another air mass.
What is a warm air mass?
Cumulonimbus clouds help bring this important substance to plants and animals on Earth
What is rain/water?
These two types of clouds often form when wind blows into the side of a mountain.
What are lenticular and stratus clouds?