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Cloud Formation Terms
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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This type of cloud is flat
What is a stratus cloud?
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Thunderstorms come from these types of clouds
What are cumulonimbus clouds
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These clouds form 18,000 feet or above.
What are cirrus clouds?
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This word means heap or mass
What is cumulus?
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The process by which molecules of water vapor in the air become liquid water?
What is Condensation?
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These clouds are wispy and feather like.
What are cirrus clouds.
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These types of clouds may produce rain or snow
What are nimbostratus clouds
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These clouds form near the ground to above 50,000 feet in the air.
What are cumulonimbus?
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nimbus comes from the latin word meaning ______?
What is rain
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The temperature when condensation begins
What is dew point?
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what cloud is puffy
what are cumulus clouds
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These clouds are usually a sign of nice weather
What are cumulus clouds?
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These two types of clouds form below 6,000 feet.
What are cumulus and stratus clouds?
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This word means to "spread out"
What is Strato
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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 three types of clouds are made up of ice crystals
What are cirrus, cirrostratus, and cirrocumulus clouds?
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Clouds that form near the ground are called what
What is fog?
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These two types of clouds form between 6,000 and 20,000 feet in the air.
What are altocumulus and altostratus clouds?
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These clouds look like rows of cotton balls and tell us a storm is on the way.
What are cirrocumulus clouds?
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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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Altocumulus and altostratus clouds form _______ in the sky
What is high?
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These clouds are also called thunderheads
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
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The temperature at which cirrus clouds form are very _____
What is low?
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What are the three main types of clouds?
What are cumulus, stratus, and cirrus clouds