Exploring Cloud Types

The video explores the formation, types, and roles of clouds in weather prediction. It explains how clouds form through processes like adiabatic cooling and how they are classified based on shape and altitude. The video also discusses the importance of cloud patterns in forecasting weather and describes various cloud types, including low, middle, high altitude, and vertically developed clouds. Understanding these cloud types helps in predicting weather changes.

What are clouds primarily made of?

• Only ice particles

• Dust particles

• Tiny water droplets and ice particles

• Large water droplets

What is the term for the cooling process that occurs as an air mass rises through the troposphere?

• Thermal inversion

• Evaporation

• Adiabatic cooling

• Condensation

What is the relative humidity when atmospheric moisture begins to condense into visible forms?

• 50%

• 100%

• 75%

• 90%

What type of clouds form as moist air is uplifted over mountains?

• Cumulus clouds

• Cirrus clouds

• Orographic clouds

• Stratus clouds

Which cloud type is characterized by layers and generally develops under stable conditions?

• Nimbo

• Cumulus

• Cirrus

• Stratus

What are high altitude cirrus clouds primarily composed of?

• Water droplets

• Salt particles

• Dust particles

• Ice crystals

Which type of low cloud is known for covering the sky from horizon to horizon with a dull appearance?

• Stratus

• Stratocumulus

• Altostratus

• Nimbo Stratus

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

What is the term for the high altitude clouds that appear as a white sheet made up of smaller individual cloudlets?

• Cumulus

• Cirrocumulus

• Cirrus

• Cirrostratus

What type of clouds are known for their great vertical extent and can develop into towering thunderheads?

• Altostratus

• Stratus

• Cumulonimbus

• Cirrostratus

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

What is the term for the clouds that form a high thin veil giving the sky a milky blue-white appearance?

• Cumulus

• Cirrus

• Altostratus

• Cirrostratus