worksheet 3
Cloud Types and Formation
Click on: http://science-edu.larc.nasa.gov/SCOOL/tutorial/clouds/cloudtypes_transcript.html
to answer the following questions.
1. What does the word ”Cirrus” mean?
2. Are cirrus clouds low or high?
3. What are the large clouds that sometimes look like huge puffs of cotton?
4. What root word tells us that a cloud brings rain?
5. Which type of cloud usually covers the whole sky and brings gray days?
Click on: http://www.fi.edu/weather/events/fog.html to answer the following questions.
6. Fog is a ______based on the ground, rather than in the atmosphere.
7. Fog forms when there is a lot of ______near the ground, or when the air near the ground ______to the dew point.
8. What is dew point?
9. If air near the ground cools to this ______, water vapor from the air will become visible as ______on the ground or ______in the air.
Click on: http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/cld/dvlp/cnvct.rxml to answer the following questions.
10. As the earth is heated by the sun, bubbles of ______or ______rise upward from the warm surface.
11. If a thermal is able to rise high enough to cool to its ______the moisture condenses and becomes visible as a ______.
Now click on the blue highlighted hotlink labeled fair weather cumulus or Go to: http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/wwhlpr/fair_cumulus.rxml?hret=/guides/mtr/cld/dvlp/cnvct.rxml to answer the following questions.
12. Fair weather cumulus have the appearance of ______and have a lifetime of ______minutes.
13. Known for their ______and distinct ______, fair weather cumulus exhibit only slight ______, with the cloud tops designating the limit of the rising air.
14. What can harmless fair weather cumulus clouds develop into? What type of weather are these clouds associated with?
Now click on the blue highlighted hotlink labeled cumulonimbus or Go to: http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/wwhlpr/cumulonimbus.rxml?hret=/guides/mtr/cld/dvlp/cnvct.rxml&prv=1 to answer the following questions.
15. Cumulonimbus clouds (Cb) are much ______and more ______developed than fair weather cumulus clouds.
16. They can exist as individual towers or form a line of towers called a ______.
17. What is a squall line of clouds?
18. Fueled by vigorous ______(sometimes in excess 50 knots), the tops of cumulonimbus clouds can easily reach ______or higher.
Click on: http://www.bom.gov.au/info/clouds/ and fill in the chart below.
List the various cloud type, their description, and the weather that is associated with each.
CLOUD TYPE DESCRIPTION WEATHER
jcameron
2004