CLOUDS
If you walk outside and see a thunderstorm, what cloud is most likely producing the storm?
What is CUMULONIMBUS?
What is your favorite cloud? (There is a correct answer)
What is CUMULONIMBUS?
Which cloud is the most pointless?
What are LOW-LEVEL STRATUS CLOUDS? (I guess stratus counts too)
Contact cooling with condensation on the grass is called what?
What is DEW?
Over your city, there lays a brownish, pollution-based cloud, what is it?
What is SMOG?
What is the worst cloud? (There is a correct answer)
What is SMOG?
Most interesting-looking cloud
What is STRATOCUMULUS?
Contact cooling when the dew point is below freezing is called what?
What is FROST?
What is the lowest cloud, formed through radiation cooling or contact cooling?
What is FOG?
Highest clouds in the sky
What is CIRRUS?
Which cloud usually hangs around in the morning?
What is FOG?
What is the name for water vapor condensing onto objects cooler than the dew point?
What is CONTACT COOLING?
A light snow is occuring right outside your very window! What cloud is producing those crispy snow flakes?
What is NIMBOSTRATUS?
This cloud can persist for days with steady rain
What is STRATUS?
Which cloud is just above the 6,000-meter mark?
What is CIRROSTRATUS?
When the sun's energy is absorbed by day by things on the earth's surface, and then radiated back towards space at night
What is RADIATION COOLING?
These clouds have been described as "hair blowing in the wind or feathers floating across the sky"
What is CIRRUS?
Rounded clouds in layers/patches
What is ALTOCUMULUS?
What cloud types are most common in Minnesota?
What are NIMBOSTRATUS AND CUMULONIMBUS?
When moisture condenses to make water droplets or ice crystals, what is this?
What is COOLING AND CONDENSATION?