Cloud types

Question 1

What do Altocumulus clouds look like?

Answer 1

altum - height; cumulus - heap

Question 2

What do Altostratus clouds look like?

Answer 2

altum - height; stratus - flattened or spread out

Question 3

What do Nimbostratus clouds look like?

Answer 3

nimbus - rainy cloud; stratus - flattened or spread out

Question 4

What do Cirrus clouds look like?

Answer 4

cirrus - lock or ‘tuft of hair’, wispy

Question 5

What do Cirrocumulus clouds look like?

Answer 5

cirrus - lock or tuft of hair; cumulus - heap

Question 6

What do Cirrostratus clouds look like?

Answer 6

cirrus - lock or ‘tuft of hair’; stratus - flattened or spread out

Question 7

What do Stratocumulus clouds look like?

Answer 7

stratus - flattened or spread out; cumulus - heap

Question 8

What do Stratus clouds look like?

Answer 8

stratus - flattened or spread out

Question 9

What do Cumulus clouds look like?

Answer 9

cumulus - heap

Question 10

What do Cumulonimbus clouds look like?

Answer 10

cumulus - heap; nimbus - rain cloud

Question 11

What clouds are classified as high clouds? [3]

Answer 11

Cirrus, Cirrocumulus, Cirrostratus

Question 12

What clouds are classified as medium clouds? [3]

Answer 12

Altocumulus, Altostratus, Nimbostratus

Question 13

What clouds are classified as low clouds? [4]

Answer 13

Stratocumulus, Cumulus, Stratus, Cumulonimbus.

Question 14

What cloud is the storm cloud?

Answer 14

Cumulonimbus