Cloud Types

What cloud is thin and wispy

• cumulus

• cirrus

• stratus

• cumulonimbus

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

What cloud looks like small round puffs and sometimes called mackerel clouds because they look similar to fish scales

• cirrocumulus

• cirrus

• cumulus

• stratus

What cloud looks like very thin sheets of clouds that cover large parts of the sky

• cirrostratus

• stratus

• altostratus

• altocumulus

Clouds that are dark and gray clouds that produce falling rain or snow

• cumulonimbus

• altocumulus

• nimbostratus

• altostratus

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

clouds that are made up of ice crystals and water droplets.They can cover the entire sky and form before rainstorms

• stratus

• altocumulus

• altostratus

• cumulus

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

clouds that are composed of water droplets and are gray and puffy.They are usually a sign that thunderstorms will form later in the day

• altocumulus

• cumulus

• stratus

• cumulonimbus

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Fog is an example of __ cloud.

• stratus
• cumulus
• cirrus
• cumulonimbus

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

clouds that are among the low-lying clouds.They are grey clouds that cover the entire sky and can be the result of very thick fog lifting in the morning.

• stratus

• cumulus

• fog

• none of these

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

clouds that look like cotton candy and are puffy.

• cumulus

• stratus

• cirrocumulus

• altocumulus

clouds that bring lightning,thunder,violent tornadoes and other intense weather situations

• nimbostratus

• altostratus

• cirrostratus

• cumulonimbus

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5