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Cloud Types & Formation
Web Quest

Go to http://eo.ucar.edu/webweather/cloud3.html Answer the following questions:

1. Stratus clouds resemble

that does not reach the ground.

2. Nimbostratus clouds form a dark gray cloudy layer. They produce

precipitation that is
___________________ to
.
3. There are two types of alto clouds,
.

and

4. Cirrus clouds are thin, wispy clouds blown by

streamers.
5. Cumulus clouds are

into long

and look like pieces of cotton.

6. Cumulonimbus clouds are

clouds.

Go to http://www.fi.edu/weather/events/fog.html Answer the following questions:

7. Fog is a
atmosphere.

based on the ground, rather than in the

8. Fog forms when there is a lot of

the air near the ground cools to the dew point.

near the ground, or when

Go to http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/cld/dvlp/cnvct.rxml Complete
the missing information.
9. As the earth is heated by the sun, bubbles of
from the warm surface.

rise upward

10.If a thermal (vapor) is able to rise high enough to cool to its

point, the moisture condenses and becomes visible as a
.
Go to http://eo.ucar.edu/webweather/cloud3.html again. On the back of this
paper, create a drawing of each types of cloud. Be sure to show where the clouds

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would be in the sky. (Are they high clouds? Low clouds?) Include the land in your
drawings to show how high they are.
Stratus
nimbostratus
Cirrostratus
Altostratus

Types of Clouds
cumulonimbus
altocumulus
cumulus

cirrocumulus
cirrus

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