Water Cycle, humidity, and clouds

This type of cloud is thin, wispy, and made of ice crystals

• cumulus cloud
• stratus cloud
• cirrus cloud
• cumulonimbus cloud

Which type of cloud is white and puffy?

• cumulus

• cirrus

• stratus

• cumulonimbus

Clouds form during the process of...

• evaporation

• condensation

• precipitation

• runoff

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Which term best describes water vapor?

• Solid

• Liquid

• Gas

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

The dew point is

• the point at which water vapor evaporates.

• the point at which water vapor condenses.

• the point at which hail starts.

• the point that water vapor becomes saturated.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Nimbostratus and cumulonimbus clouds can signal what type of upcoming weather?

• fair skies
• hot, sunny weather
• windy weather
• rainy weather

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

What kind of precipitation is formed when water falls from the clouds and lands on the ground as liquid water?

• Hail
• Sleet
• Rain
• Snow

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

This is a puffy cloud that produces rain and thunderstorms.

• Cumulonimbus

• Altocumulus

• Nimbostratus

• Cirrocumulus

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

This is a mid level, puffy cloud.

• Altocumulus

• Stratocumulus

• Stratus

• Nimbostratus

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

This is a mid level, layered cloud.

• Altostratus

• Nimbostratus

• Stratus

• Cumulus

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4