Cloud Formation

To correctly identify a cloud formation, you must determine the cloud's _____________________

• color and composition.

• altitude in the sky and shape.

• color and shape.

• altitude and color.

Which will most likely form during the condensation process?

• rain

• hail

• clouds

• runoff

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

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How are air masses form into clouds? Clouds are form when

• cold moist air rises and then cools

• warm moist rises, expands and then cools

• cold air reaches the lifted condensation level

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Which two conditions are required for cloud formation?

• high humidity & warm temperatures

• high humidity & cool temperatures

• warm temperatures & dust particles

• cool temperatures & dust particles

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Clouds that look like fluffy, rounded piles of cotton are _________________ clouds.

• cirrus

• cumulonimbus

• cumulus

• stratus

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

This phrase is referred to as "puffy" or "fluffy."

• Cumulo

• Cirrus

• Strato

• Nimbo

Type of cloud associated with thunderstorms and heavy precipitation

• stratocumulus

• cumulonimbus

• nimbostratus

• cumulus

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

The low-level featureless sheet of clouds that sometimes appear in the surface of the Earth in the form of mist or fog.

• stratus

• cirrus

• nimbus

• cumulus

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Which type of cloud is this?

• Cirrus

• Stratus

• Cumulus

• Cumulonimbus

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

What cloud is the closes to the ground

• cirrus

• cumulus

• nimbus

• cumulonimbus