Cloud Formations

Question 1

Cirrus Clouds

Answer 1

Delicate, wispy clouds of ice crystals forming at high levels around rocky or metallic dust when warm, dry air rises & deposits water vapour

Question 2

Cumulus Clouds

Answer 2

Vertically developing heaps of liquid water droplets forming at low levels when warm air ascends

Question 3

Stratus Clouds

Answer 3

Horizontally developing sheets of liquid water droplets forming at low levels due to water vapour uplift

Question 4

Altocumulus Clouds

Answer 4

Vertically developing shaded wisps of water droplets forming at mid levels from water droplets when warm air ascends, often indicating settles weather

Question 5

Altostratus Clouds

Answer 5

Horizontally developing featureless sheets of water droplets & thin ice crystals forming at mid levels when layers of cirrostratus clouds descend as a warm front approaches, uplifting water vapour. Sometimes translucent

Question 6

Cirrocumulus Clouds

Answer 6

White wisps of ice crystals forming at high levels when warm air ascends

Question 7

Cirrostratus Clouds

Answer 7

Wide, transparent sheets of ice crystals forming at high levels from water vapour uplift

Question 8

Stratocumulus Clouds

Answer 8

White to dark clumps of water droplets forming at low levels when marine air condenses water droplets

Question 9

Cumulonimbus Clouds

Answer 9

Rain-producing heaps forming at any height over large areas from ascending warm air, indicating a thunderstorm

Question 10

Nimbostratus Clouds

Answer 10

Flat, rain-producing sheets forming from slowly rising warm air encountering colder air