Why are halos and sun dogs associated with cirrus clouds and rainbows with cumulus clouds?

What will be an ideal response?


Halos and sun dogs involve light interacting with ice crystals which comprise cirrus while liquid droplets from a warmer cumulus cloud are required to form a rainbow.

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The most serious seismic hazard is:

a. ground failure b. mass movement c. tsunamis d. ground shaking

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________ is one way to explain how services are distributed and why a regular pattern of settlements exists, at least in developed countries such as the United States

A) The von Thünen model B) The concentric model C) Central place theory D) The sector model E) The distance tolerance model

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Desert winds are effective at producing erosional and depositional features. List one depositional feature and one erosional feature formed by wind in deserts and explain how each forms

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