What are clouds made of?
Low Level Clouds
Mid Level Clouds
High Level Clouds
100

This is what clouds are made of — tiny drops of this or small pieces of ice.

What is water?

100

These clouds are the lowest in the sky and often look like a gray blanket.

What are stratus clouds?

100

These clouds form in the middle part of the sky and often look like gray or blue sheets.

What are altostratus clouds?

100

These clouds form very high in the sky and look thin and wispy like feathers.

What are cirrus clouds?

200

When warm, moist air rises and cools, this process happens to form clouds.  

What is condensation?

200

These fluffy, white clouds sit low in the sky and look like cotton balls.

What are cumulus clouds?

200

These mid-level clouds look like fluffy white patches or waves, often covering part of the sky.

What are altocumulus clouds?

200

These clouds often appear before a storm and spread across the sky in a thin, white veil.

What are cirrostratus clouds?

300

These big, puffy white clouds look like cotton balls and usually mean good weather.

What are cumulus clouds?

300

When stratus clouds touch the ground, we call it this instead.

What is fog?

300

These clouds can warn that a storm or rain might be coming soon.

What are altostratus clouds?

300

These small, white, patchy clouds look like tiny cotton balls high in the sky.

What are cirrocumulus clouds?

400

What airline flies above the clouds?

What is Frontier Airlines?

400

These low, gray clouds can produce light rain or drizzle.

What are nimbostratus clouds?

400

When the sky looks like it’s covered in small, white, puffy “fish scales,” it’s often this type of mid-level cloud.

What are altocumulus clouds?

400

High-level clouds are mostly made of this, not liquid water.

What is ice?

500

True or False: Some clouds mean you should prepare for rain?

True

500

These low clouds can form in patches or layers and often look bumpy or wavy in the sky.

What are stratocumulus clouds?

500

These clouds form between about 6,500 and 20,000 feet up in the sky — higher than low clouds but lower than cirrus clouds.

What are mid-level clouds?

500

These types of clouds form above 20,000 feet in the sky and are the highest of all cloud types.

What are high-level clouds?