Clouds and Weather

Puffy white clouds, flat on the bottom, can change shapes

• stratus clouds

• cumulus clouds

• cirrus clouds

• cumulonimbus clouds

These clouds are low to the ground, gray, look like fog or a blanket.

• cumulus clouds

• cirrus clouds

• stratus clouds

• cumulonimbus clouds

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

These clouds are high in the sky, look like stretched out cotton, wispy

• stratus clouds

• cirrus clouds

• cumulus clouds

• cuulonimbus clouds

These clouds are big and tall, bring rain, are called thunderstorm clouds

• cumulus clouds

• stratus clouds

• cirrus clouds

• cumulonimbus clouds

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

What does the word nimbus mean?

• able to move easily

• ice and water

• rain

What causes cirrus clouds to be made of ice instead of water?

• a few of these curly cirrus clouds mean nothing

• they form very high above Earth where it is very cold

• they mean a storm is coming in a day or so

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

Whenever you see cumulonimbus clouds, you know that a rainstorm is coming?

• true

• false

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

What does the word "heap" mean?

• rounded pile of something

• ice and water

• different kinds of clouds

• an old car

When might you see cumulus clouds?

• during a storm

• before it snows

• in good weather

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

All clouds are the same.

• true

• false