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Cloud Types and Weather Patterns Flashcards, Exams of Nursing

Stanford UniversityNursing

Explore the fascinating world of clouds with these flashcards designed to enhance your understanding of cloud formation, types, and associated weather patterns. This educational resource covers various cloud classifications, including cirrus, cirrostratus, cirrocumulus, alto clouds, altocumulus, stratus, stratocumulus, nimbostratus, cumulus, and cumulonimbus clouds. Learn about the conditions that lead to fog formation, contrails, and even green clouds, providing a comprehensive overview of atmospheric phenomena. Perfect for students and weather enthusiasts alike, these flashcards offer a concise and engaging way to master cloud identification and their role in weather forecasting. Delve into the science behind cloud colors, heights, and movements, and discover how different cloud types can indicate changing weather conditions. Enhance your knowledge of meteorology with this informative and accessible study aid.

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Science Olympiad Flashcards
A large collection of very tiny droplets of water or ice crystals. correct answers clouds
Warm air rises, expands and cools, causing the water vapor to condense into tiny
pieces of dust that float in the air and form tiny droplets around each dust particle. When
billions of these particles come together, they form a visible cloud.
(Liquid water droplets are heated by the sun, rise, and cool to the point of condensation,
thereby forming a cloud.) correct answers How are clouds formed?
They reflect the light of the sun. Clouds reflect all the colors of a rainbow in the same
amount, which makes them white. correct answers Why are clouds white?
When clouds get thick enough or high enough, all the light above does not make it
through, so they look gray.There may also be many clouds around one, casting their
shadows and making that cloud darker. correct answers What makes clouds look gray?
survival kits correct answers What should you have available in case disaster strikes?
The cloud and the air it is made of is warmer than the outside air around it. correct
answers Why do clouds float?
They move with the wind. (usually travelling about 30-40 miles per hour in a
thunderstorm) correct answers How do clouds move?
Due to the different elements: water vapor, temps. at that height, wind, and other air
masses. correct answers Why do clouds form at different heights?
Mostly when southerly winds bring warm, moist air into a region, possibly ending a cold
outbreak. The warm, moist air flows over colder soil or snow, creating dense/thick fog.
correct answers How is fog formed?
Most common type of high clouds; are composed of ice and are thin and wispy, blown in
long streamers; usually white; predict pleasant/fair weather; can tell which direction
weather is approaching; indicates weather will change within 24 hrs. correct answers
Cirrus clouds
Thin, sheetlike high clouds (can see sun and moon through them); often cover the entire
sky; usually come 12-24 hrs. before a rain or snow storm. correct answers Cirrostratus
clouds
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A large collection of very tiny droplets of water or ice crystals. correct answers clouds Warm air rises, expands and cools, causing the water vapor to condense into tiny pieces of dust that float in the air and form tiny droplets around each dust particle. When billions of these particles come together, they form a visible cloud. (Liquid water droplets are heated by the sun, rise, and cool to the point of condensation, thereby forming a cloud.) correct answers How are clouds formed? They reflect the light of the sun. Clouds reflect all the colors of a rainbow in the same amount, which makes them white. correct answers Why are clouds white? When clouds get thick enough or high enough, all the light above does not make it through, so they look gray.There may also be many clouds around one, casting their shadows and making that cloud darker. correct answers What makes clouds look gray? survival kits correct answers What should you have available in case disaster strikes? The cloud and the air it is made of is warmer than the outside air around it. correct answers Why do clouds float? They move with the wind. (usually travelling about 30-40 miles per hour in a thunderstorm) correct answers How do clouds move? Due to the different elements: water vapor, temps. at that height, wind, and other air masses. correct answers Why do clouds form at different heights? Mostly when southerly winds bring warm, moist air into a region, possibly ending a cold outbreak. The warm, moist air flows over colder soil or snow, creating dense/thick fog. correct answers How is fog formed? Most common type of high clouds; are composed of ice and are thin and wispy, blown in long streamers; usually white; predict pleasant/fair weather; can tell which direction weather is approaching; indicates weather will change within 24 hrs. correct answers Cirrus clouds Thin, sheetlike high clouds (can see sun and moon through them); often cover the entire sky; usually come 12-24 hrs. before a rain or snow storm. correct answers Cirrostratus clouds

Small, rounded white puffs in long rows; resemble the scales of a fish; usually seen in the winter; indicate fair, but cold weather; in tropical regions, may indicate approaching hurricane. correct answers Cirrocumulus clouds Gray or blue-gray mid level clouds, composed of ice crystals and water droplets; usually cover entire sky; sun may be dimly visible; often form ahead of storms with continuous rain or snow. correct answers "Alto" clouds Mid level clouds made of water droplets; are gray puffy masses; usually form in groups. correct answers Altocumulus clouds Uniform, grayish clouds that usually cover the entire sky; like fog that doesn't reach ground; ligh mist or drizzle sometimes falls from these. correct answers Stratus clouds Low, puffy and gray; most form in rows with blue sky visible in between; rain rarely occurs; can turn into nimbostratus clouds. correct answers Stratocumulus clouds Dark gray, wet looking cloudy layer; associated with continuous falling rain or snow; often produce precipitation that is usually light to moderate. correct answers Nimbostratus clouds White and puffy (like cotton); called fair weather clouds; base is flat and top has rounded towers; when head is a cauliflour, it is called 'cumulus congestus' or 'towering cumulus'; can develop into giant cumulonimbus, thunderstorm clouds. correct answers Cumulus clouds Thunderstorm clouds; associated with heavy rain, snow, hail, lightning and tornados; anvil shape at top usually points to direction of the storm. correct answers Cumulonimbus clouds Low hanging bulges that droop from cumulonimbus clouds; usually indicate severe weather. correct answers Mammatus clouds Caused by a wive wind pattern created by mountains; look like discs or flying saucers; form near mountains. correct answers Lenticular clouds A cloud on the ground, composed of millions of water droplets floating in the air; atmosphere visiblity near earth's surface reduced to 1 kilometer or less. correct answers Fog Condensation trails left behind jets; hot humid air jet exhaust mixes with environmental air of low vapor pressure and low temperature. correct answers Contrails Associated with severe weather; green color thought to have to do with high amount of liquid droplets and hail inside the clouds; correct answers Green clouds