Name that Cloud
Weather
The Water Cycle
Cloud Definitions
Storms
100
What are cumulus clouds?
100
What type of scientist studies and predicts the weather?
A meteorologist.
100
When water heats and changes from a liquid to a gas.
What is evaporation?
100
Puffy, white, cotton-like clouds that mean nice weather.
What are cumulus clouds?
100
You can usually hear this after lightning strikes.
What is thunder?
200
What are stratus clouds?
200
These form when tiny drops of water come together in the sky.
What are clouds?
200
The process by which water moves through the Earth and atmosphere.
What is the water cycle?
200
Clouds that are spread out like a blanket and cover the entire sky.
What are stratus clouds?
200
Water that falls from the sky as rain, snow, sleet, or hail.
What is precipitation?
300
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
300
How hot or cold the air is.
What is temperature?
300
When water cools and changes from a gas to a liquid.
What is condensation?
300
When cumulus clouds grow tall and dark they can turn into . . .
cumulonimbus clouds.
300
A bright electric charge that happens in thunderclouds.
What is lightning?
400
What are stratonimbus clouds?
400
Air moving in a specific direction is called . . .
wind
400
What provides energy that evaporates water and heats the land?
The sun.
400
Stratus clouds that turn dark and bring long-lasting storms are called . . .
stratonimbus clouds
400
These clouds bring storms that can last all day.
What are stratonimbus clouds?
500
What are cirrus clouds?
500
What it’s like outside, including temperature, wind, clouds, and precipitation.
What is weather?
500
The process by which plants lose water out of their leaves.
What is transpiration?
500
Clouds that form near the ground are called . . .
fog
500
These clouds bring storms that usually last under an hour.
What are cumulonimbus clouds?