ATSC 113 Midterm 1 UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT Answers
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ATSC 113
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ATSC 113
ATSC 113 Midterm 1 UPDATED ACTUAL
Questions and CORRECT Answers
What are the 2 main divisions of clouds? - CORRECT ANSWER- Normal and Special
What are Cumuliform Clouds? - CORRECT ANSWER- Normal Clouds
- look like stacks of cotton balls
- associated with updrafts (warm air rising)
,Difference between Nimbostratus and Stratus - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Nimbostratus
produces percipitation and have washed out cloud bases
What are Stratocumulus Clouds? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Mix of Cumuliform or
Stratiform Groups
- low altitude layer of lumpy clouds
What are Castellanus Clouds? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Type of Special Cloud
- look like castle turrets
- small diameter
- form when thin layers of cold and warm hair mix
What are Billow or Kelvin Helmholtz Clouds? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Type of Special
Cloud
- look like waves
- form when wind speed or direction changes
What are Lenticular or Cap Clouds? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Type of Special Cloud
- look like stakcs of plates
- formed when wind hits a mountain and causes vertical oscillation
- may not be harmful
What are Rotor Clouds? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Type of Special Cloud
- turbulent, ragged looking clouds usually under a lenticular cloud
- form at lower altitudes under crest of mountain waves
What are Banner Clouds? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Type of Special Cloud
- surround mountain top
- formed on downside of mountain peak
, What are Pyrocumulus Clouds? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Type of Special Cloud
- brownish or grey in colour
- form over forest fires or volcanoes
What are Pileus Clouds? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Type of Special Cloud
- little top over a cumulus cloud
- short lived
- formed due to rapid forming cumulus cloud
- not harmful
What are Fractus or Scud Clouds? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Type of Special Cloud
- turbulent, ragged looking clouds
- form in humid turbulent air near the ground
- not harmful
What are Fumulus Clouds? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Type of Special Cloud
- found over cooling towers
- formed over cooling towers
- not harmful
What are Contrails Clouds? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Type of Special Cloud
- jet trails
- aircraft condecation trail
What is sky or cloud cover? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The fraction of the sky covered by
clouds
- measured from 0 to 8 oktas
Rank the Oktas Scale - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 0 = clear skys
1-2 = few clouds
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