Cloud Types
These clouds are thin and wispy
What are Cirrus Clouds
This is one of the three types of clouds found low in the atmosphere
What is Stratus, Cumulus or Nimbus
This is the main part of most clouds
What is water vapour
This type of cloud means stormy weather is coming. Get inside!
What is nimbus
What are the two things that clouds are named (or classified) by?
What are altitude and shape.
What are stratus clouds
These clouds are found low in the atmosphere, and can be so low that they form fog
What are stratus clouds
High Altitude clouds (where it is very cold) are made of this type of substance
What are ice crystals
This type of cloud is often seen on beautiful, sunny days
What is cumulus
This type of cloud makes lightning
What is cumulonimbus
This cloud word means it's a storm cloud!
What is Nimbus (or Nimbo)
These clouds are found high in the atmosphere
What are Cirrus Clouds
This 'pollution' in the air is needed for clouds to form.
What is dust.
This type of cloud can have a light rain or snow, but does not make storms
What is stratus
This is the type of cloud that we observed during science journal time on Wednesday.
What is stratus (and stratocumulus)
This cloud type is flat on the bottom and fluffy or rounded on top
What is cumulus
This clouds start low, but can extend up through the mid-atmosphere into the high!
What are cumulonimbus
When clouds have too much moisture in them, this happens.
What is precipitation
This type of cloud is often seen on fair weather days and does not block any sunlight
What are Cirrus
This is a reason why we NEED clouds to live
Clouds make the water we drink and keep the Earth from being too hot or cold.
This cloud type is a combination of stratus and cumulus
What is stratocumulus clouds.
These clouds are found in the mid-altitude level
What are altocumulus and altostratus
Clouds are formed when water is warmed by the sun, and does this.
What is evaporates into the air.
This type of cloud makes hail and even tornados!
What is cumulonimbus
This is why some clouds are dark.
What are lots of water droplets in the cloud