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Según su altura, los cirrocúmulos se clasifican como nubes de:By height, cirrocumulus are classed as:

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Correct answer: b) High clouds.

Why it is correct

Clouds with the prefix cirro are high, made of ice crystals. Cirrocumulus sits with cirrus and cirrostratus in the high layer.

Why the others are not

  • a) Middle clouds are the alto- ones.
  • c) Low are stratus and stratocumulus.
  • d) Those are cumulus and cumulonimbus.

How to work it out in the exam

  1. Cirro-: high.

Where this question comes from

Try it: Weather visuals

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