Stormy Skies Unit Review

How can you tell the difference between a stratus and a stratonimbus cloud?

• A stratus cloud is small and a stratonimbus cloud is very tall.

• A stratonimbus cloud has a lighter color.

• A stratonimbus cloud is darker than a stratus cloud, and causes rain.

• A stratus cloud only covers part of the sky, and a stratonimbus cloud covers the whole sky.

Stratonimbus storms usually cause rain all day long because ______.

• the clouds are very wide so they spend a long time over one area.

• there is no hail in stratonimbus storms

• they turn into cumulus clouds

• they turn into stratus clouds

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Where do clouds come from?

• The sky.

• When birds fly really fast they make clouds.

• Clouds come from water from the surface of the earth.

• They are magic.

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Which cloud is a stratus cloud?

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Which cloud is a strato-nimbus cloud?

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Which cloud is a cumulus cloud?

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Which cloud is a cumulonimbus cloud?

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Animals that live here have blubber or thick fur:

• temperate

• polar

• tropical

• mild

• desert

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Trees lose their leaves in the autumn:

• temperate

• polar

• tropical

• mild

• desert

Many animals hibernate in winter, come back out in springtime

• temperate

• polar

• tropical

• mild

• desert