Types
How Clouds Are Formed
Fast Facts
100
Name this type of cloud:
What is cumulus?
100
This happens when hot and cold air meet together
What is condensation?
100
Clouds are located in this layer of the earth's atmosphere.
What is the troposphere?
200
Name this type of cloud:
What is stratus?
200
All clouds are made up of these materials.
What are water vapor or ice crystals?
200
Name the 3 subgroups of clouds.
What are high, mid, and low-level?
300
These clouds are referred to as storm clouds or thunderheads.
What is cumulonimbus?
300
Water vapor originates from here.
What is the earth's surface?
300
The cirrus cloud usually produces this type of sky.
What is clear sky?
400
Thin, wispy clouds. Latin word meaning "ringlet" or "curling lock of hair."
What is cirrus?
400
This process helps water vapor go into the sky.
What is evaporation?
400
Cumulonimbus produces this type of weather
What is hail, rain, thunderstorms and tornadoes?
500
Identify at least one low-level cloud.
Varied answers. What are cumulus, stratocumulus, stratus, and cumulonimbus?
500
Clouds form to give plants and animals this.
What is rain and water?
500
I can fly but I have no wings. I can cry but I have no eyes. Wherever I go, darkness follows me.
What is a cloud?