Name that Cloud
Weather
The Water Cycle
Cloud Definitions
Storms
100

What are cumulus clouds?

100

What type of scientist studies and predicts the weather?

A meteorologist.

100

When water heats and changes from a liquid to a gas.

What is evaporation?

100

Puffy, white, cotton-like clouds that mean nice weather.

What are cumulus clouds?

100

You can usually hear this after lightning strikes.

What is thunder?

200


What are stratus clouds?

200

These form when tiny drops of water come together in the sky.

What are clouds?

200

The process by which water moves through the Earth and atmosphere.

What is the water cycle?

200

Clouds that are spread out like a blanket and cover the entire sky.

What are stratus clouds?

200

Water that falls from the sky as rain, snow, sleet, or hail.

What is precipitation?

300


What are cumulonimbus clouds?

300

How hot or cold the air is.

What is temperature?

300

When water cools and changes from a gas to a liquid.

What is condensation?

300

When cumulus clouds grow tall and dark they can turn into . . .

cumulonimbus clouds.

300

A bright electric charge that happens in thunderclouds.

What is lightning?

400


What are stratonimbus clouds?

400

Air moving in a specific direction is called . . .

wind

400

What provides energy that evaporates water and heats the land?

The sun.

400

Stratus clouds that turn dark and bring long-lasting storms are called . . .

stratonimbus clouds

400

These clouds bring storms that can last all day.

What are stratonimbus clouds?

500


What are cirrus clouds?

500

What it’s like outside, including temperature, wind, clouds, and precipitation.

What is weather?

500

The process by which plants lose water out of their leaves.

What is transpiration?

500

Clouds that form near the ground are called . . .

fog

500

These clouds bring storms that usually last under an hour.

What are cumulonimbus clouds?

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