Clouds and Its Types

Q. _________ is the amount of moisture present in the air, expressed in percentage of the amount needed for saturation at the same temperature.

1. Absolute humidity
2. Relative moisture
3. Relative humidity
4. Absolute moisture

Q. Explain the cloud and its types.

Q. When the water droplets in the clouds start freezing into ice crystals, what do they fall down as?

1. Hail
2. None of the Above
3. Dew
4. Both (a) and (b)

Q. What are the features of Cirrus clouds?

1. Appearing throughout the sky at lower altitudes, they bring only a slight drizzle and are flat shaped.

2. Dense and dark, they are flat shaped and bring continuous rainfall.

3. They look like small packets of clouds in the region between higher and lower altitude clouds.
4. Thin, light, and feather-like and they form at very high altitudes.

Q. What is the temperature at which the relative humidity of the air becomes 100%.

Q. What happens when water accumulation in the clouds become a point?

1. Smog
2. Rain
3. Hail
4. All of the Above

Q. Which type of clouds occur between high and low altitude in the sky?

1. Stratus
2. Nimbostratus
3. Altocumulus
4. Cirrus

Q. Which clouds appear dark and bring continuous rainfall?

1. Stratus clouds
2. Nimbostratus clouds
3. Altocumulus clouds
4. Cirrus clouds

Q. When water freezes in rocks, it _________. Choose the correct sentence(s) for water and rock.

1. shrinks
2. turns to frost or ice
3. evaporates
4. expands

Q. clouds appear throughout the sky at lower altitudes.

1. Stratus
2. Altocumulus
3. Cirrus

Q. clouds are known as high fog.

1. Nimbostratus
2. Stratus
3. Cirrus

Q. Match the following:

1. Middle altitude
2. Low altitude
3. High altitude