Clouds & Global Wind Patterns

Cirro means:

• rainy

• spread out

• heap/pile

• curl or tuft of hair

Cumulo means:

• heap/pile

• high/wispy

• rainy

• spread out

Strato means:

• layer, broad/wide-spread

• rain cloud

• heap/pile

• white and fluffy

Nimbo means:

• high-level

• rain

• broad/spread-out

• layer

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Identify the cloud:

hair-like clouds found at the high-level; may take on colors of the rising/setting sun

• stratus

• cirrus

• altostratus

• nimbostratus

Identify the cloud:

mid-level clouds; patches or layers of clouds, called cloudlets, in the shape of rounded clumps

• cumulus

• altocumulus

• altostratus

• cirrus

Identify the cloud:

high-level cloud, a lot of small, white cloudlets grouped together, formed almost entirely of ice crystals

• cirrus

• cirrocumulus

• cumulus

• altocumulus

Identify the cloud:

very low-level cloud (the lowest), sometimes appears at ground-level as mist or fog

• cumulus

• cirrus

• stratus

• nimbostratus

Identify the cloud:

mid-level, formed from a mixture of water droplets and ice crystals, spread out over a large area, can have parallel stripes

• altocumulus

• altostratus

• nimbostratus

• cirrostratus

Identify the cloud:

low-level cloud that can be present in all weather conditions

• cumulus

• nimbostratus

• stratocumulus

• cumulonimbus