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What causes winds to curve?
a) The storm effect
b) The Doldrums
c) Polar easterlies
d) The Coriolis Effect

Which clouds are made from ice and form high in the sky?
a) cirrus
b) stratus
c) cumulus
d) cumulonimbus

Which clouds are flat and low in the sky?
a) cirrus
b) stratus
c) cumulus
d) cumulonimbus

Which clouds are fair weather clouds?
a) cirrus
b) stratus
c) cumulus
d) cumulonimbus

Which clouds cause thunderstorms?
a) cirrus
b) stratus
c) cumulus
d) cumulonimbus

What type of precipitation remains frozen from the cloud to the ground?
a) snow
b) sleet
c) hail
d) freezing rain

What type of precipitation is round pellets that become too heavy and fall out of a cumulonimbus cloud?
a) snow
b) sleet
c) hail
d) freezing rain

What type of precipitation is liquid that falls through a layer of freezing air?
a) snow
b) sleet
c) hail
d) freezing rain

What type of precipitation is liqud that freezes when it reaches the ground?
a) snow
b) sleet
c) hail
d) freezing rain

The trapping of heat by the Earth's atmosphere is called
a) The Coriolis effect
b) The Greenhouse Effect
c) Acid Rain
d) Ultraviolet Radiation

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