Cloud Types

Cloud Types

Know your clouds!

Multiple Choice

What type of cloud is very high, wispy in shape, and made of ice crystals?

• Cumulus Clouds

• Cirrus Clouds

• Stratus Clouds

• Nimbus Clouds

Multiple Choice

What type of cloud is white and puffy? These are usually seen on a pleasant day.

• cirrus clouds

• stratus clouds

• cumulus clouds

• Head in the clouds

Multiple Choice

What type of cloud is a low level cloud, which often looks like flat layers of gray clouds?

• Altocirrus clouds

• stratus clouds

• cirrus clouds

• cumulus clouds

Multiple Choice

Which type of cloud is fog?

• cirrus

• cumulus

• stratus

• altocumulus clouds

Multiple Choice

Which prefix/suffix means "produces precipitation?"

• nimbus

• stratus

• alto

• The rain maker

Multiple Choice

What is a cloud?

• A collection of space crystals that float into our atmosphere

• Water Vapor (This is not the correct answer!)

• A collection of gasses, mostly made up of oxygen and nitrogen.

• A collection of water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the air

Multiple Choice

How is a cloud formed?

• Dry air rises and then cools

• Warm, moist air rises and then condenses

• Water in the air falls to the earth

• People throw them up in the sky

Multiple Choice

What is necessary for the condensation of water vapor up in the sky?

• Hot temperatures

• mild temperatures

• condensation nuclei

• a can opener

Multiple Choice

Which cloud prefix/suffix means "Mid Level?"

• nimbus

• stratus

• alto

• cirrus

Multiple Choice

Which prefix/suffix means curly and wispy?

• alto

• nimbus

• cirrus

• cumulus

Multiple Choice

What type of cloud is a "thunderhead" bringing heavy rains, thunder, lightning, and possibly hail?

• cumulus

• cumulonimbus

• nimbus

• altostratus

Multiple Choice

Which type of cloud looks like a blanket of flat and layered gray clouds?

• stratus

• cumulus

• cirrus

• alto-cumulous