Cloud Types and Altitude Classifications Quiz
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Which cloud type is often grouped separately as towering vertical?

  • Nimbostratus
  • Altostratus
  • Cirrocumulus
  • Cumulonimbus (correct)

    • Which cloud type is commonly grouped with the low clouds due to its lack of significant vertical extent?

  • Cirrostratus
  • Cumulonimbus
  • Stratocumulus (correct)
  • Altostratus

    • In what approximate order of instability or convective activity do the physical forms of clouds occur?

  • Cirriform wisps and patches, stratiform sheets, cumuliform heaps, stratocumuliform patches, rolls, and ripples
  • Stratiform sheets, cumuliform heaps, cirriform wisps and patches, stratocumuliform patches, rolls, and ripples
  • Cumuliform heaps, stratiform sheets, cirriform wisps and patches, stratocumuliform patches, rolls, and ripples
  • Stratiform sheets, cirriform wisps and patches, stratocumuliform patches, rolls, and ripples, cumuliform heaps, cumulonimbiform towers (correct)

    • Which altitude level or levels in the troposphere determine the groupings of cloud types?

    <p>High, middle, low</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Into how many physical forms are the genera of clouds grouped?

    <p>Five</p> Signup and view all the answers

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