Weather Quiz: Clouds

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Nimbo or Nimbus means rain-bearing and Stratus is a flat and uniform type of cloud. Thus, the two together describe the low, gray cloud that a steady precipitation would fall from.

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Towering anvil-topped cumulus. Mauna Kea, Hawaii NOAA Photo Collection
5. On a hot summer afternoon, in the distance you see a cumulus cloud that has grown to gigantic proportions. As you watch, the top of the cloud begins flattening out into a large anvil shape and you can hear distant thunder coming from it. This type of cloud is a:

A. Nimbostratus
B. Stratucumulus
C. Cirrostratus
D. Cumulonimbus

Choose any one of the four answers above.