Do You Know Your Clouds?

Low Clouds

100

These clouds are below ______ feet. 

6500

200

Comprised of _____ ______

Water Droplets 

300

They are often seen as ______

Gloomy

400

This low, lumpy cloud is know as_____

stratocumulus

500

______ clouds are most likely to produce drizzle. 

Stratus

Middle Clouds

100

Middle clouds are between ______ and _______

6,500 and 23,000

200

Comprised of _______ and ________

Water droplets and ice crystals 

300

______ clouds are mid level clouds that are vertically developed. 

Altocumulus 

400

__________ clouds are layered and milky looking. 

Altostratus 

500

_________ clouds are the most common high clouds. 

Cirrus

High Clouds

100

High clouds are above ________ feet 

20,000

200

Comprised of _________

Ice crystals 

300

High clouds have ________ moisture 

Little 

400

________ clouds are curly and move west to east 

Cirrus 

500

_______ clouds are so thin that the moon and sun form halos when shining through them. 

Cirrostratus 

Unusual Clouds

100

_____ clouds appear in UFO type shapes. 

Lenticular 

200

________ Clouds form sacs underneath larger thicker clouds. 

Mammatus 

300

_______ clouds are towering and resemble castle towers. 

Castellanus 

400

________ clouds are scarfs or smudges over the top of tall clouds. 

Pileus 

500

________ clouds form in the wake of jet engines. 

Contrails 

Fog

100

_______ fog forms from the radiational cooling of the earths surface. 

Radiation 

200

Fog is a _______ that is in contact with the ground. 

cloud 

300

_________ fog forms from the melting of hail. 

Hail 

400

________ fog forms from moist air flowing along a hill slope or mountain. 

Upslope Fog 

500

Advection fog forms when warm moist air flows over a _________ surface. 

Cooler