Name: ______________________________________________ Date:______________________ Pd:____
Warm-up: How do clouds form?
Lesson Review
Complete the table below by placing a check mark in the correct column. Then, answer the questions that
follow.
11. What is fog? ____________________________________________________________________________
12. Predict when and how fog would form over land? ______________________________________________
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Skill Challenge
Many clouds are combinations of cirrus, cumulus, and stratus clouds. Nimbus is used to describe rain clouds.
Read the name of each of the following cloud combinations. Write what you think each cloud type is called.
Then, describe what you think each cloud would look like.
1. cirrus + stratus____________________________________________________________________________
description: ______________________________________________________________________________
2. stratus + cumulus _________________________________________________________________________
description: ______________________________________________________________________________
3. cirrus + cumulus __________________________________________________________________________
description: ______________________________________________________________________________
4. nimbus + stratus _________________________________________________________________________
description: ______________________________________________________________________________
Name: ______________________________________________ Date:______________________ Pd:____
Clouds
Enrichment Activity
Besides the three basic kinds of clouds, there are combinations of clouds. Clouds can be classified by the heights at which
they form above Earth’s surface.
PART A Use your notes to find the approximate heights at which each of the different types of clouds form.
1. cirrostratus
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6. cumulus
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2. cumulonimbus
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7. cirrus
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3. cirrocumulus
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8. altostratus
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4. nimbostratus
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9. stratus
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5. stratocumulus
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10. altocumulus
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PART B Clouds are classified as high, middle, and low clouds, based upon the heights at which they form.
Classify each cloud listed in Part A under the correct heading.
PART C Use your notes to answer the questions.
1. What is the meaning of the word cirro? Based on the meaning, give a brief description of a cirrostratus cloud.
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2. Which clouds were likely formed from rising currents of warm air? ______________________________
3. Which clouds do you think could be fog? _____________________________________________________
4. The word nimbus means rain. Which clouds listed in your table bring rain? ___________________________
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