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WorksheetsClouds and Precipitation
Total questions: 26
Worksheet time: 1hrs 17mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Are stratus clouds or cirrus clouds found closer to the ground?
a)
Cirrus
b)
Stratus
2.
What type of clouds are called "fair weather clouds" and look like floating cotton?
a)
Cumulus
b)
Stratus
c)
Nimbus
d)
Cumulonimbus
3.
What type of cloud is often formed by fog lifting in the morning?
a)
Nimbus
b)
Cumulonimbus
c)
Cirrus
d)
Stratus
4.
what type of cloud is shown?
a)
cumulus
b)
cirrus
c)
stratus
d)
cumulonimbus
5.
During which part of the water cycle do clouds form?
a)
condensation
b)
transpiration
c)
precipitation
d)
evaporation
6.
They are low in the sky and look soft and fluffy. They have flat bases that are usually a little darker than the heaping top.
a)
Cirrus
b)
Cumulonimbus
c)
Cumulus
d)
Stratus
7.
Cumulus clouds usually mean ...
a)
fair weather (nice)
b)
thunderstorms
c)
rain/storms coming
d)
long periods of rain
8.
Cirrus clouds mean ...
a)
fair weather (nice)
b)
thunderstorms
c)
rain/storms coming
d)
long periods of rain
9.
What type of cloud is this?
a)
nimbus
b)
cummulus
c)
cirrus
d)
stratus
10.
What type of clouds is this?
a)
Cummulus
b)
Stratus
c)
Cummulonimbus
d)
Cirrus
11.
What type of cloud is this?
a)
Cummulus
b)
Cirrus
c)
Stratus
d)
nimbus
12.
High level cloud that contains ice crystals?
a)
cirrus
b)
stratus
c)
cumulus
d)
cumulonimbus
13.
Fog is an example of a ground level ______ cloud.
a)
cirrus
b)
stratus
c)
cumulus
d)
cumulonimbus
14.
What is moving air?
a)
rain
b)
wind
c)
water
d)
speed
speed
speed
15.
What happens when something condenses?
a)
It warms up.
b)
It cools down.
16.
They are highest clouds in the sky. They look wispy, white and feathery. Usually mean good weather.
a)
Cumulus
b)
Cumulonimbus
c)
Cirrus
d)
Stratus
17.
How do clouds form?
a)
Liquid water is heated and evaporates and becomes water vapor in the atmosphere.
b)
Water vapor in the atmosphere cools and condenses to become tiny liquid water droplets in the atmosphere.
c)
Tiny liquid water droplets float upwards and gather together in the atmosphere to form a cloud.
d)
Magic
18.
Water leaving clouds such as rain, snow, sleet, hail is called .....?
a)
precipitation
b)
evaporation
c)
condensation
d)
sublimation
19.
Frozen rain drops are called _____.
a)
sleet
b)
snow
c)
hail
d)
freezing rain
20.
______ clouds are high altitude clouds that are thin, wispy, and white.
a)
stratus
b)
cumulus
c)
cirrus
d)
cumulonimbus
21.
Low altitude clouds that look like layers are called ________.
a)
nimbostratus
b)
stratus
c)
cumulus
d)
cirrus
22.
A _________ is a round pellet of ice larger than 5 millimeters in diameter.
a)
snowflake
b)
hailstone
c)
sleet
23.
What is the most common type of precipitation?
a)
rain
b)
snow
c)
sleet
d)
hail
24.
What is the most common type of precipitation?
a)
rain
b)
snow
c)
sleet
d)
hail
25.
What is the most common type of precipitation?
a)
rain
b)
snow
c)
sleet
d)
hail
26.
Snow is....
a)
Partly forzen rain
b)
Balls or chunks of ice
c)
Millions of droplets that stick together
d)
Ice crystals that stay frozen
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