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

____________ clouds are wispy and feather-like clouds.

• Cumulus

• Stratus

• Cirrus

• Cumulonimbus

__________________ clouds are high clouds that look like feathers.

• Cumulus

• Stratus

• Cirrus

• Cumulonimbus

Which type of clouds are these? They are high level, thin, wispy clouds that usually accompany winds and signal the weather is going to be changing. 

• cumulus

• stratus

• cumulonimbus

• cirrus

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Write the number of the cloud next to the vocabulary word.

• Stratocumulus

• F

• Stratus

• G

• Cumulus

• H

• Cumulonimbus

• I

• Nimbostratus

• J

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Which type of cloud is shown in this picture?

• Cumulus

• Stratus

• Cumulonimbus

• Cirrus

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Clouds that form near the ground and look like fluffy heaps of cotton are called

• cumulus clouds

• cirrus clouds

• stratus clouds

• cumulonimbus clouds

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Smooth, gray clouds that cover the whole sky (blanket) are called...

• Cumulus

• Stratus

• Cumulonimbus

• Cirrus

Cumulonimbus clouds are associated with _________ weather. 

• rainy

• snowy

• fair

• stormy

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5