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What are Clouds?

  1. What are clouds?
  2. How do clouds stay in the sky?
  3. Describe how and why clouds appear white, and what causes the “rainbow” effect:

Types of Clouds?

  1. What are the three types of clouds common in the sky:
  1. What does the term stratus mean?
  2. What does the term cumulus mean?
  3. What does the term cirrus mean?
  4. Define Alto and Nimbus:

Alto:

Nimbus:

Rain Clouds

  1. What is precipitation?
  2. What type of precipitation do Nimbostratus clouds bring?
  3. What weather phenomena are cumulonimbus clouds associated with?

Affecting Weather

Draw and label the movement of water in the earth’s atmosphere using the terms: evaporation, condensation and precipitation.

Cloud Catcher

Drag and Drop: Complete the diagram with the name of the cloud with the correct definition.

  1. Comes from the Latin term from “curl of the hair”
  1. A steady rain or snow falls from these types of clouds
  1. These clouds look like cotton balls in the sky
  1. Low lying rolling clouds, usually seen in the winter
  1. These types of clouds look like blankets that cover the sky
  1. They are the kinds of clouds that you would see during a thunderstorm
  1. Look much like Cirrocumulus but the puffs are larger
  1. High lying fluffy clouds that are hard to see

Cloud Quiz:

  1. Clouds are made up of ?
  1. Cotton
  2. Water Droplets
  3. Air
  1. Clouds stay in the air by ?
  1. Gravity
  2. Rising Air
  3. Invisible strings
  1. Clouds appear white because water is white.
  1. True
  2. False
  1. There are main types of clouds.
  1. In Latin the word “stratus” means ?
  1. To rain
  2. To spread out
  3. Foggy
  1. Is an example of a cloud?
  2. Cumulus
  3. Stratus
  4. Cirrus
  1. Is a term used to describe clouds that produce precipitation?
  2. Alto
  3. Nimbus
  1. In the correct order, the three stages of the water cycle are:
  2. Evaporation, condensation, precipitation
  3. Condensation, evaporation, precipitation
  4. Precipitation, condensation, evaporation
  1. Cumulus clouds mean ?
  2. Rain
  3. Tornado
  4. Good Weather
  1. The three main types of clouds are and ?
  2. Stratus, cumulus, cirrus
  3. Alto, stratus, cirrus
  4. Nimbus, alto, cumulus
  1. Draw and label the process of Convective cloud formation:
  1. Draw and label how frontal lifting forms clouds:
  1. Draw and label “Relief” cloud formation –also known as orographic cloud formation: