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Clouds and cloud types quiz

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A cloud forming a continuous uniform layer, similar to stratus but occurs at medium altitude .
cirrostratus
cirrus
altostratus
stratus
altostratus
Thick and puffy clouds on middle elevations.
stratus
altocumulus
cirrocumulus
cirrus
altocumulus
Low elevated clouds that produce rain and snow.
stratus
altostratus
nimbostratus
cumulus
nimbostratus
Cloud forming a continuous horizontal grey sheet, often with rain or snow.
cirrocumulus
nimbostratus
stratus
stratocumulus
stratus
Low elevated cloud forming rounded masses heaped on each other above a flat base.
altocumulus
cumulus
cirrus
cirrocumulus
cumulus
Cloud forming a towering mass with a flat base. Low elevation. Often a flat top, as in thunderstorms.
cumulonimbus
stratus
stratocumulus
cirrus
cumulonimbus
Small, high elevated cottony rows of clouds.
cirrocumulus
stratus
altocumulus
stratocumulus
cirrocumulus
The highest clouds made of ice crystals.
altostratus
stratocumulus
stratus
cirrus
cirrus
Cloud forming a thin, more or less uniform semi-translucent layer at high altitudes.
cirrocumulus
cirrostratus
cumulonimbus
nimbostratus
cirrostratus
Layered and puffy clouds on middle and lower elevations.
cirrus
altostratus
cirrostratus
stratocumulus
stratocumulus

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