Clouds! Clouds! Clouds!

______________ forms when water vapor cools and condenses around particles of dust and smoke to make tiny water droplets that gather together.

• Clouds

• Fog

• Ice Crystals

• Water Vapor

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

___________ clouds look the most like cotton balls. They're puffy and white with flat bottoms.

• Cumulus

• Stratus

• Cirrus

• Cumulonimbus

Fog is made of low ____________ clouds.

• Cumulus

• Stratus

• Cirrus

• Cumulonimbus

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

____________ clouds are wispy and feather-like clouds.

• Cumulus

• Stratus

• Cirrus

• Cumulonimbus

__________________ clouds are high clouds that look like feathers.

• Cumulus

• Stratus

• Cirrus

• Cumulonimbus

__________________ clouds are low clouds that look like bed sheets covering the sky.

• Cumulus

• Stratus

• Cirrus

• Cumulonimbus

Which best explains why it is important for people to be able to identify cumulonimbus clouds?

• Cumulonimbus clouds can cause mild showers

• Cumulonimbus clouds can cause severe thunderstorms

• Cumulonimbus clouds can form near the Earth's surface, causing fog

• Cumulonimbus clouds form when the temperature is below freezing.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Which type of cloud is most often associated with days of light, continual rain?

• cirrus

• stratus

• cumulus

• cumulonimbus

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5