• Answer the following questions on a separate sheet of paper. • Answer the questions using complete sentences – any answers not in complete sentences will get no credit. • Answers are due THURSDAY!!! • Part 1 = C, Parts 1 & 2 = B; Parts 1, 2 & 3 = A Part 1 – These answers can be found directly in the reading, and go in order in the reading. Answer them using complete sentences!! 1. How do clouds form? 2. Describe a cumuliform cloud. 3. What does cumulus mean? 4. What does air need to be doing in order for a cumuliform cloud to grow? 5. What can you infer about weather conditions when you see cumuliform clouds? 6. Describe a stratiform cloud. 7. What does stratus mean? 8. What are the prefixes for high-­‐level and medium-­‐level clouds? 9. What does nimbus mean? What are nimbus clouds? Part 2 – Describe the following clouds, based on their name. Tell what they probably look like, as well as where they are found (Remember what the prefixes mean, and remember what it means when there is NO prefix). 1. Altocumulus 2. Cirrostratus 3. Stratus 4. Cumulus 5. Nimbostratus Part 3 – At the end of the reading there is a quote from a poem by Johan Wolfgang van Goethe. 1. What do you think he means? 2. Write and illustrate a short poem about clouds (either a sonnet or a haiku, or another type of poem of your choice).