This type of cloud is white, puffy and looks like pieces of floating cotton.
What is cumulus.
100
This type of precipitation is formed when water droplets become too heavy and fall to the ground.
What is rain?
100
This part of the water cycle happens for clouds to form.
What is condensation?
100
This is the water form of hail.
What is solid?
200
This type of cloud is gray and often covers the entire sky like a big blanket.
What is stratus?
200
This type of precipitation is formed when water vapor turns directly into ice.
What is snow?
200
This type of cloud is high in the earths atmosphere.
What is cirrus?
200
What water form is rain?
What is liquid?
300
This type of cloud is very high in the atmosphere. It is thin and feathery and high winds blow it into long streamers.
What is cirrus?
300
This type of precipitation is formed wheen water droplets pass through freezing cold air.
What is sleet?
300
This type of cloud is low in the sky and can also be called fog.
What is stratus?
300
This is the temperature that the air has to be for snow to fall. The ground also has to be this temperature for the snow to stick.
What is 32 F?
400
This type of cloud means a thundarstorm is coming. It sometimes brings hail, lightning, and heavy rain.
What is cumulonimbus?
400
This type of precipitation is formed when wind carries ice back into the cold part of the atmosphere where it refreezes and becomes larger. This process continues until the balls of ice get too heavy and then they fall to the Earth's surface.
What is hail?
400
Clouds are formed when water vapor does this.
What is rises and cools down?
400
This is the difference between sleet and hail.
What is sleet freezes as it falls and hail is swept up by wind and is refrozen several times before it falls.
500
This is another name for clouds at ground level.
What is fog?
500
This type of precipitation falls down as rain but as soon as it touches the ground or any other object it freezes.
What is freezing rain?
500
Clouds are made up of...
What is water droplets or ice crystals?
500
This takes place in the condensation step of the water cycle for snow or hail to fall instead of rain.