Cloud Types
Altitude
Water Cycle
Weather
Wild Card
100

These clouds are thin and wispy

What are Cirrus Clouds

100

This is one of the three types of clouds found low in the atmosphere

What is Stratus, Cumulus or Nimbus

100

This is the main part of most clouds

What is water vapour

100

This type of cloud means stormy weather is coming. Get inside!

What is nimbus

100

What are the two things that clouds are named (or classified) by?

What are altitude and shape.

200
This cloud type covers the sky like a low blanket

What are stratus clouds

200

These clouds are found low in the atmosphere, and can be so low that they form fog

What are stratus clouds

200

High Altitude clouds (where it is very cold) are made of this type of substance

What are ice crystals

200

This type of cloud is often seen on beautiful, sunny days

What is cumulus

200

This type of cloud makes lightning

What is cumulonimbus

300

This cloud word means it's a storm cloud!

What is Nimbus (or Nimbo)

300

These clouds are found high in the atmosphere

What are Cirrus Clouds

300

This 'pollution' in the air is needed for clouds to form.

What is dust.

300

This type of cloud can have a light rain or snow, but does not make storms

What is stratus

300

This is the type of cloud that we observed during science journal time on Wednesday.

What is stratus (and stratocumulus)

400

This cloud type is flat on the bottom and fluffy or rounded on top

What is cumulus

400

This clouds start low, but can extend up through the mid-atmosphere into the high!

What are cumulonimbus

400

When clouds have too much moisture in them, this happens.

What is precipitation

400

This type of cloud is often seen on fair weather days and does not block any sunlight

What are Cirrus

400

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.

500

This cloud type is a combination of stratus and cumulus

What is stratocumulus clouds.

500

These clouds are found in the mid-altitude level

What are altocumulus and altostratus

500

Clouds are formed when water is warmed by the sun, and does this.

What is evaporates into the air.

500

This type of cloud makes hail and even tornados!

What is cumulonimbus

500

This is why some clouds are dark.

What are lots of water droplets in the cloud