Clouds

What are cirrus clouds?

• Big, fluffy white clouds that look like cotton balls

• Thin, high, white clouds made of ice crystals

• Tall, dark clouds that produce lightning, thunder and rain

• Dark gray clouds that hold a lot of precipitation

What kind of weather can you expect if you see cumulus clouds?

• A sunny day

• Dust storms

• Tornadoes

• Hurricanes

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What kind of weather is usually associated with stratus clouds?

• Snowstorms and typhoons

• Fog, drizzle

• Hurricane force winds

• Bright and sunny

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Why do cirrus clouds look thin and wispy?

• Because they hold a lot of moisture

• Because they are a bigger cloud that has partially evaporated

• Because they float low to the ground

• Because the wind where they form blows between 100 and 150 miles per hour

What is it called when a stratus cloud forms extremely close to the Earth's surface?

• Precipitation

• Moisture

• Fog

• Heat

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Where do cumulus clouds form?

• In Antarctica

• Very high in the sky

• Low in the sky

• Just below the highest clouds

What are some features of a cumulus cloud?

• They have fuzzy outlines, flat tops and are connected to each other

• They have sharp, clear outlines, a rounded top and are randomly spaced in the sky.

• . They are evenly spaced out, connected to each other and produce lightning.

• They are completely gray, with a rounded top and form very high in the sky.

What is precipitation?

• The effect on a cloud when it is blown around at high speeds

• The formation of a cloud

• Water that falls from a cloud in different forms

• A kind of cloud

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When you see cirrus clouds, what kind of weather can you usually expect?

• A nice sunny day, but storms may be coming

• Nice, sunny weather for at least a week

• Rain and storms for at least a week

• A snowstorm is on the way

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

What does the term evaporate mean?

• To go from a solid to a liquid

• To freeze

• To go from a liquid to a gas

• To go from a liquid to a solid

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