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How Clouds Form
Cloud Types 1
Cloud Types 2
Cloud Types 3
Cloud Types 4
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These form when water vapor in the air becomes liquid water or ice crystals.
What are clouds
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These clouds form in flat layers
What are stratus cloud
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The main three types of clouds

What are stratus, cumulus, and cirrus clouds

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As this type of cloud thickens it may produce rain, drizzle, or snow.
What are stratus clouds
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This type of cloud produces rain, drizzle, or snow.
What are nimbostratus clouds
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The process by which molecules of water vapor in the air become liquid water is called______?
What is condensation
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These clouds are puffy like cotton
What are Cumulus clouds?
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These clouds usually indicate fair weather.
What are cumulus clouds
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This type of cloud forms below 6,000
What are stratus, cumulus, or stratocumulus
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These types of clouds are also called thunderheads.
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
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The temperature at which condensation begins is called _______?
What is dew point?
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These clouds are wispy and feathery
What are cirrus clouds
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These towering clouds with flat tops often produce thunderstorms.
What are cumulonimbus
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These two types of clouds form above 18,000 feet
What are cirrus and cirrocumulus
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Cirrus clouds form only at high levels where temperatures are ________
What is low
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This forms when water vapor condenses out of the air onto a solid surface.
What is dew
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These clouds are mostly made up of ice crystals
What are cirrus clouds
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The suffix -nimbus comes from this latin word
What is rain
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These two types of clouds form between 6,000-20,000 feet above ground
What are altocumulus and altostratus clouds
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Clouds that form at or near the ground are called ________
What is fog.
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If the dew point is below the freezing point, the water vapor may change into ______ __________.
What are ice crystals
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The word Strato means _______ ________.
What is spread out
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This word means heap or mass
cumulus
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The prefix alto means ________
What is high
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Clouds are also classified by their _____________.
What is altitude.