Weather

After a couple days, puddles on the sidewalk shrink and disappear. What happens to the water?

• It gets sucked up by the cement.

• A doggy will drink it.

• The liquid water evaporates.

Why do clouds look white?

• They are made of many droplets of water.

• They are made out of cotton.

• That's is their color.

What is the water cycle?

• Water floats up in the air and then falls down again.

• Water from the ground evaporates, forms a cloud, then precipitation happens.

• The ice starts melting, forms a cloud, then it evaporates.

Describe a cumulus cloud.

• Dark

• Long and stretchy.

• Fluffy and are small to medium.

What do cumulonimbus clouds look like.

• White and fluffy.

• Like cumulus clouds but tall.

• Thin

What do stratus clouds look like?

• They cover all the sky.

• White an fluffy.

• Small and fluffy.

What do stratonimbus clouds look like?

• Like stratus clouds but dark.

• small and fluffy

• White clouds

Carlos says that clouds covering the whole sky means it's going to rain only for a short period of time. What do you think?

• True

• False

Stratonimbus storms last all day?

• True

• False

Why does it rain all day with a stratus cloud but not with a cumulonimbus cloud?

• Because the clouds are very wide.

• Because the clouds are darker.

• Because they are clouds.