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| Cumulus clouds are puffy clouds that sometimes look like pieces of floating cotton. The base of each cloud is often flat and may be only 1000 m (330 ft) above the ground |
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Stratus Clouds
Stratus clouds are uniform grayish clouds that often cover the entire sky. They resemble fog that does not reach the ground. |
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| Cirrus clouds are thin, wispy clouds blown by high winds into long streamers. They are considered "high clouds" forming above 6000 m (20,000 ft). |
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| The ratio of the amount of water in the air compared to the total amount of water the air can hold |
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| The measure of the amount of water actually present in a given amount of air |
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| The temperature where the rate of evaporation and the rate of condensation are equal; below this temperature condensation will occur |
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| When water vapor turns from a gas into a liquid |
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| When liquid water turns in to water vapor |
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| Formed when water condenses onto a surface that is above freezing temperature |
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| Formed when water condenses onto a surface that is below freezing |
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| Suspended particles in the air that provide the surface for water vapor to condense on to form fog/clouds |
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| to process that changes water from a solid to liquid to gas due to changes in temperature |
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| The process of turning liquid water into solid ice |
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| The process of turning solid ice into liquid water |
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| The process of water falling to earth |
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| Clouds that form near the surface of the Earth |
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| Rain with very small droplets |
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| Rain that falls through a freezing layer of air very near the surface forming ice pellets |
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| Frozen water crystals that fall through thick layers of air below freezing |
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| Rain that falls as a liquid but freezes on contact with a surface that has a temperature below 32-degrees |
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| Lumps of ice that fall through layers of air where it melts then refreezes numerous times |
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| A term used to describe air that is holding all of the water vapor it can possibly hold |
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