Clouds
What cloud am I if I am high in the sky and are very thin.
Cirrus Clouds
Cumulus, Cirrus, Stratus
What are the 3 main types of clouds?
Rain, sleet, snow, hail are forms of
What is precipitation
The prefix for 'middle'
Alto
Gray clouds that cover the lower part of the sky; rain or snow falls from them
What is stratus?
What cloud am I if I cause thunderstorms and am very tall.
Cumulonimbus
How do stratus clouds look?
flat and layered
Falls through warm air in the form of water
What is rain?
What are the clouds that are made primarily of ice crystals?
cirrus
White puffy clouds that look like piles of cotton balls; they are known as fair-weather clouds
What is cumulus?
What cloud am I if I am puffy and produce good weather.
Cumulus
Feathery clouds that are high forming
What is cirrus?
Is made of up crystals and falls on a cold ground
What is snow?
What determines the name of a cloud?
Shape and Height
Thin feathery clouds that appear high in the sky
What is cirrus?
What cloud am I if I am low and look like a blanket?
Stratus
A tall cloud that brings heavy rain and thunderstorms.
What is cumulonimbus
Type of precipitation that freezes on contact of a surface
What is freezing rain
nimbus
Clouds that form on the Earth's surface
What is fog?
Fog that forms on the side of mountains
Upslope
Tiny particles that water droplet condense on to form clouds
Condensation nuclei
Precipitation that partially melts through the atmosphere and then refreezes
What is sleet
Fog that typically forms over a body of water
Advection
Describes how the clouds are formed.
They are formed when water vapor rises, cools, and condenses on condensation nuclei