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Clouds
Cloud Formation
Combination Clouds
Atmospheric Moisture
Clouds and Weather
100
a cloud that looks like a heap of cotton balls or whipped cream
What is a cumulus cloud?
100
during this part of the water cycle, water vapor turns into tiny droplets in a cloud
What is condensation?
100
A cloud that brings thunderstorms, intense rain and possible tornadoes
What is a cumulonimbus cloud
100
when water vapor heats up and rises into the atmosphere
What is evaporation?
100
The only cloud type with vertical development that can form in all three levels of the atmosphere
What is cumulonimbus?
200
A long thin cloud that covers a large area like a blanket
What is a stratus cloud?
200
the term used for rain falling from the clouds
What is precipitation?
200
4 types of cloud found in the low part of the atmosphere
What is stratus, cumulus, stratocumulus, nimbostratus?
200
The heat energy absorbed or released by a substance during a phase change.
What is the latent heat?
200
These types of clouds are usually a sign of fair weather
What are cumulus clouds?
300
Clouds are made up of this in three forms
What is water (liquid, solid, gas)
300
A solid particle in the atmosphere that provides the surface on which water vapor condenses (ice, dust, salt)
What is Condensation Nucleus?
300
A type of cloud that forms in the middle atmosphere
What is altostratus or altocumulus?
300
In the condensation stage, water vapor needs to do this in order to condense and form clouds
What is cool (decrease temperature)?
300
The type or weather thick stratus clouds bring
What is light rain and drizzle?
400
A thin wispy cloud high in the atmosphere
What are cirrus clouds
400
The process of cloud formation where the temperature of an air mass decreases as the air mass rises and expands
What is Adiabatic Cooling?
400
A type of cloud formed in the upper atmosphere
What is (cirrus, cirrostratus, cirrocumulus)?
400
What happens to water droplets as more and more of them begin to condense together?
What is they become heavy and fall to the ground as rain or snow?
400
The type of cloud that forms above 20,000ft in the sky and are associated with mild days.
What are cirrus clouds?
500
The altitude that cumulus clouds form at.
What is 2000-6500 meters?
500
The point at which clouds start to form because the temperature is below the dew point.
What is condensation level?
500
These clouds are like very thin sheets of clouds that cover large parts of the sky. They have a transperant veil.
What is cirrostratus?
500
The mass of water vapor per unit volume of air that contains the water vapor.
What is absolute humidity?
500
These types of clouds are associated with thick fog especially in valleys and over oceans.
What is stratus clouds?