These clouds are uniform color of gray, and cover most of the sky. These clouds usually indicate rain.
What are stratus clouds?
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high, mid-level, low-level
What are the three levels of altitude clouds are grouped in?
100
Involves water moving through the different Earth subsystems so that it is being recycled.
What is the water cycle?
100
When water falls back to earth as precipitation, it may fall back in the oceans, lakes or rivers or it may end up on land.
What is collection?
100
A large group of tiny water droplets that we can see in the air.
What is a cloud?
200
These clouds look like big fluffy balls of cotton. They usually mean that the weather will be BEAUTIFUL, however, they can get very tall and turn into thunderheads. There are usually a lot of blue sky between different clouds.
What are cumulus clouds?
200
This altitude has three main type of clouds: cirrus, cirrostratus, and cirrocumulus.
What are high-level clouds?
200
Is the process of which water changes from liquid to gas
What is evaporation?
200
A visible collection of tiny water droplets (or at colder temperatures - ice crystals) floating in the air above the surface. Offer important clues to understanding and forecasting the weather.
What are clouds?
200
Can contain millions of tons of water
What is a cloud?
300
These clouds cover the entire sky over a large area, and usually produce steady precipitation aead of a storm. You can see a bit of the sun through the clouds, but the sun will be hazy or 'watery'.
What are altostratus clouds?
300
Mid-level clouds are ___ how many feet in the troposphere?
What is 6,500 - 20,000 feet in the troposphere?
300
The process of gas changing into liquid.
What is condensation?
300
The meteorological conditions, including temperature, wind direction and speed,
precipitation, air pressure and cloud cover. Occurs over short periods of times (daily, weekly,
monthly
What is weather?
300
This planet and Saturn have clouds of ammonia.
What is Jupiter?
400
These clouds appear to be blue-gray and blanket like.The mostly produce rain and snow.
What are altocumulus clouds?
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Consists of liquid water droplets or supercooled droplets and are 6, 500 feet.
What are low-level clouds?
400
water in any form that falls to the earth
What is precipitation?
400
This planet has thick clouds of sulfur-dioxide.
What is Venus?
500
These clouds are thin, sheetlike clouds often covering the entire sky. These clouds indicate clear skies and you can most likely see the sun or the moon because they're so thin.
What are cirrostratus clouds?
500
Stratus and Cumulus
What are the two main types of low-level clouds?
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snow, hail, and rain.
What are the types precipitation?
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A dense and vertically developed cloud that produces thunderstorms. This cloud can bring heavy showers, hail, lightning, high winds and sometimes tornadoes.
What are Cumulonimbus clouds?
500
There are a range of different types of clouds, the main types include: