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Vocabulary

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to change from a gas to a liquid

condense

200

A blanket of gases that surrounds the Earth

Atmosphere

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When a cloud produces rain or snow we call it a 

Nimbus cloud

Types of Clouds

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puffy, white clouds that are spread out with large spaces of blue sky between them and usually seen in nice weather

Cumulus Clouds

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wispy and feather-like clouds found high in the sky and are made up of ice-crystals

Cirrus clouds

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low sheets of gray clouds spread out like a blanket and can bring rain

Stratus clouds

Types of Precipitation

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fall from cold clouds when ice crystals stay frozen as they fall

snow

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form when raindrops fall through very cold air near the ground

sleet

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ice pellets that collect a new layer of ice each time they are bounced up and down in the atmosphere with updrafts and downdrafts

hail

High/Med/Low

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Are cumulus clouds found High in the atmosphere, the middle of the atmosphere, or low in the atmosphere?

Low in the atmosphere

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Are stratus clouds found low in the atmosphere, middle of the atmosphere, or high in the atmosphere?

Low in the atmosphere

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Cirrus clouds are found high in the atmosphere, the middle of the atmosphere, or low in the atmosphere?

High in the atmosphere