Cloud types
Key Concepts
Vocabulary
Reading/Misc.
100

Any mass of condensed liquid water inside of an air parcel that forms one large mass.

What is a cloud?

100

An amount of air that moves as a unit.

What is an air parcel?

100

The movement of air in a particular direction.

What is wind?

100

Rain, snow, or sleet that falls on the ground.

What is percipitation?
200

Clouds made of ice crystals that usually reside high in the sky.

What is a Cirrus cloud?

200

Why an air parcel rises when it is warmer than the temperature of the surrounding air.

What is density?
200

A measure of the average kinetic energy of something.

What is temperature?

200

How water vapour becomes liquid water.

What is condensation?

300
The most common type of clouds, with wispy tops and dark bottoms.

What is a cumulus cloud?

300

Water as a gas form.

What is water vapour?
300

Conditions such as rain, clouds, and wind.

What is climate?

300

How does wind contribute to more rain?

It forces the air parcel to cool suddenly, causing more rainfall.

400
"Thunder Clouds" the anvil shaped clouds responsible for the creation of thunder and lightning, as well as corresponding thunderstorms.

What is a cumulonimbus cloud?

400

The ability to spark movement in something.

What is energy?

400

The point of origination of something.

What is a source?

400

What caused the Great Flood of 1862?

Higher temperatures, close location to a body of water, and rain.
500

The only other type of cloud with which rainfall is possible besides the cumulonimbus clouds.

What are nimbostratus clouds?

500

The process by which water turns into a gas from a liquid.

What is evaporation?

500

Something that can be observed to repeat.

What is a pattern?

500

What caused the intense storms?

a)higher temperatures, wind, and the lake.

b)higher temperatures, wind, and maganellic rain,

c) arbitrary reasons

A) higher temperatures, wind, and the lake.