Cloud Types Quiz

These clouds are wispy or curly, white, thin & feather-like

• cumulus
• cumulonimbus
• cirrus
• stratus

These clouds are puffy and white and sometimes appear to have a flat bottom.

• cumulus
• cumulonimbus
• cirrus
• stratus

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

These clouds bring rainy or overcast weather.

• cumulus
• cumulonimbus
• cirrus
• stratus

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

These clouds can bring thunderstorms, heavy rain, lightening, and sometimes hail.

• cumulus
• cumulonimbus
• cirrus
• stratus

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Winter clouds, brings snow

• Cirrus

• nimbostratus

• Cumulonimbus

• Alto cumulus

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Long, gray, dark

• Cirrus

• Cumulus

• Stratus

• Cirrostratus

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Follows aircraft

• Cirrus

• Contrails

• Stratus

• Cumulus

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Which puffy shaped clouds form at high elevation?

• cirrus
• cirrocumulus
• altostratus
• cumulonimbus

Which type of clouds form at high elevations and are made of ice crystals?

• cumulus
• altostratus
• nimbostratus
• cirrus

How do clouds form?

• Liquid water is heated and evaporates and becomes water vapor in the atmosphere.
• Water vapor in the atmosphere cools and condenses to become tiny liquid water droplets in the atmosphere.
• Tiny liquid water droplets float upwards and gather together in the atmosphere to form a cloud.
• Magic

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4