Reading Info What are Clouds?

What are Clouds?

Read the passage and then answer the questions!

Multiple Choice

What is a cloud made of?

• cool air

• feathers

• cotton balls

• water drops

Multiple Choice

In How Do Clouds Form?, what does vapor mean?

• ice

• air

• gas

• dust

Multiple Choice

What is one way clouds get their names?

• by their size

• by their shape

• by their color

• by their weight

Multiple Choice

Read the sentence below from the text.

"Low clouds form closer to Earth's surface."

What is happening to the clouds?

• They are becoming dark.

• They are being made.

• They are becoming light.

• They are being lifted up.

Multiple Choice

Based on the text, which sentence correctly retells how droplets become rain?

• Before droplets join with other droplets, they turn into rain.

• After droplets join with other droplets they turn into rain.

• Before droplets split from other droplets, they turn into rain.

• After droplets split from other droplets, they turn into rain.

Multiple Choice

What does "cover the sky like bed sheets" mean?

• The clouds spread across the sky like bed sheets across a bed.

• The bed sheets are white like the clouds in the sky are white.

• The clouds feel like soft bed sheets on a bed.

• The bed sheets are in the sky like clouds.

Multiple Choice

Read the sentences below from the text.

"Sometimes those droplets join with other droplets. Then they turn into larger drops."

What are droplets?

• soft drops

• large drops

• small drops

• hard drops

Multiple Choice

Which words does the author use in What Causes Rain? to show the order of events?

• light and float

• call and drops

• most and very

• when and then

Multiple Choice

In How Does Fog Form?, what does condense mean?

• fall apart

• become wet

• stick together

• make a blanket

Multiple Choice

In which part can the reader find information on cirrus clouds?

• How Do Clouds Form?

• What Are Some Types of Clouds?

• What Causes Rain?

• How Does Fog Form?

Multiple Choice

What is a cirrus cloud?

• a cloud at 18,000 feet that looks like birds

• a cloud at 18,000 feet that looks like cotton balls

• a cloud at 18,000 feet that looks like feathers

• a cloud about 18,000 feet that looks like cotton candy

Multiple Choice

Many students study clouds to understand weather. What prefix can be added to the word "understand" to change the meaning to not understand correctly?

• mis-

• pro-

• dis-

• non-

Multiple Choice

By looking at the clouds in the sky, it is easy to know what kind of weather is expected. What prefix can be added to the word "expected" to change the meaning to not expected?

• mis-

• pre-

• un-

• re-