Cloud Formations
What are Cirrus clouds
What are rain, snow, sleet and hail categorized as?
What is precipitation
What is the suns job in making a cloud?
What is evaporation
In order to rise, an air parcels temperature has to be ___ than the surrounding air.
What is warmer
What clouds are left in the wake of spacecraft or airplanes?
What are contrail clouds
What is it called when a gas turns into a liquid?
What is condensation
What results from water droplets becoming heavy?
What is precipitation
What makes bigger clouds, hot temperatures or warm temperatures?
What is hot temperatures
What clouds are most commonly known as "Thunder clouds?"
What are Cumulonimbus clouds
What is the measure of how hot or cold something is?
What is temperature
What happens to the air parcel when it is warmer than the surrounding air?
What is rising
Winds make bigger clouds: true or false?
What is true
What two clouds bring lots of rain, normally over the course of a few days
What are altostratus and nimbostratus clouds
What is the lowest layer of the atmosphere?
What is the troposphere
When an air parcel cools down, what happens to the water vapor inside?
What is condensation
Air parcels that travel higher or lower in the troposphere create bigger clouds?
What is higher
This cloud looks like it will bring rain but only brings fog or nothing.
What is a stratus cloud
What is it called when a liquid turns into gas/vapor?
What is evaporation
What is dust and pollution
What is surface water/runoff