Download Bell Ringer Answers 11-1-10

Bell Ringer Answers 11-1-10
1. Low-level clouds are fog, cumulus, stratus,
and nimbostratus. Medium-level clouds are
altocumulus and altostratus. High-level
clouds are cirrostratus and cirrus.
2. Ice particles smaller than 5 mm in diameter.
3. Rain, sleet, freezing rain, hail, and snow
Bell Ringer Answers 11-2-10
1. Both form when rain falls through a layer of cold
air near the surface. Sleet occurs when the rain
freezes in this cold layer of air. Freezing rain
occurs when the rain freezes on cold surfaces.
2. The stones are tossed up and down in the
clouds. As the stones move through the cold
regions of the clouds, additional ice layers are
added.
3. The air must be cold near the ground, but not so
cold that rain freezes in the air. Instead,
raindrops freeze when they touch a cold surface.
Bell Ringer Answers 11-3-10
1. Central and northern Canada and Alaska
2. Clouds and possible storms with heavy rain
or snow.
3. A high pressure center of dry air.
Bell Ringer Answers 11-4-10
1. Temperature and humidity
2. Maritime tropical and maritime polar air
masses are humid; continental tropical and
continental polar air masses are dry.
3. A maritime polar air mass
Bell Ringer Answers 11-5-10
1. The boundary where two unlike air masses
meet.
2. Cold front: clouds, storms, heavy
precipitation possible; warm front: clouds,
light precipitation; stationary: clouds,
precipitation; occluded: clouds,
precipitation.
3. Warm or stationary