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Use the information found on the websites to answer the following questions:

USE YOUR OWN WORDS AND COMPLETE SENTENCES!

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1. What is a cloud?

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2. How do clouds move?

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3. What are the names of the three highest clouds in the atmosphere?

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4. Put the following clouds into the correct three groups (High Clouds, Middle Clouds, and Low Clouds):

-altocumulus

-cirrus

-nimbostratus

-cirrocumulus

-stratus

-altostratus

-cirrostratus

-stratocumulus

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5. What two types of clouds have vertical growth?

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6. Which type of cloud is described as a "califlower-topped cloud"?

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7. What is the altitude (in km) of the base of cirrostratus clouds?

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8. What are the names of the three lowest clouds in the atmosphere?

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9. Fill in the blank:

"Cirrus clouds are __________ and __________, appearing high in the sky."

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10. Why do clouds turn gray?