Water cycle and clouds

• Cirrus clouds (high level)

  These are thin, wispy, and white clouds that resemble hair. They are made of tiny ice pieces. They indicate the location of a distant storm/approaching change in weather.
• Stratus clouds

  These are thin layers of clouds that cover extensive portions of the sky horizontally. They are associated with stable weather conditions and can bring light precipitation. Fog is one of its types. It’s the clouds closest to Earth.
• NimboSTRATUS clouds (mid level)

  Continuous rain clouds. Dark and gray in color, thick enough to block the Sun. Associated with moist weather, drizzle, snow, or ice particles.
• Cumulus clouds

  These are big, cotton candy-looking clouds that can stack vertically in a tower-like manner. They form in warm air on sunny days. Associated with fair weather
• Cumulonimbus clouds

  Known for vertical development and are associated with heavy precipitation and thunderstorms.
• Which clouds look like heaps of cotton?

  Cumulus
• What clouds look like wispy curls high in the air?

  Cirrus
• Which clouds spread out and look like a low cover just overhead?

  Stratus
• Which clouds are dark, gray blanket or puffs of smoke?

  Stratus
• These clouds show it is going to rain and are stormy clouds.

  Cumulonimbus
• These clouds are seen in the blue sky and are high curly, wispy clouds.


  Cirrus
• These clouds hang above the city and spread out

  Stratus
• These clouds are white fluffy clouds.

  Cumulus
• These clouds are high, thin, white clouds made of tiny ice pieces

  Cirrus
• These clouds are low flat gray clouds that are layered

  Stratus
• Stratus clouds that lie close to the ground are called

  Fog
• Clouds that form in warm air on sunny days

  Cumulus
• Thunderhead clouds that are dark puffy clouds

  Cumulonimbus
• Water in the air

  Water vapor
• Humidity is the amount of water vapor in the air
• On hot summer days, these clouds generally cause thunderstorms

  Cumulonimbus
• These clouds form in high altitudes and are formed by ice crystals

  Cirrus
• Clouds that are formed at higher altitudes and are fluffy white masses with flat bases

  Cumulus
• Low clouds without a definite form

  Stratus
• Clouds associated with fair weather

  Cumulus
• Clouds associated with moist weather, drizzle, snow, or small ice particles

  Nimbus
• Clouds closest to earth

  Stratus
• Clouds that are light gray in color and give winter skies a dull gray color.

  Stratus
• Clouds that indicate the location of a distant storm or an approaching change in weather.

  Cirrus
• On hot summer days, these clouds generally cause thunderstorms, heavy rains, and hail

  cumulonimbus
• Cirrus clouds are thin, wispy clouds found at high altitudes and are composed primarily of ice crystals. They often indicate fair weather but can also be a precursor to a change in the weather, such as the approach of a warm front.
• Atmosphere is the air that surrounds Earth
• What is the stage of the water cycle where water turns into water vapor?

  Evaporation
• What is the process called when water droplets fall from clouds to the ground?

  Precipitation
• What happens during the condensation stage of the water cycle?


  Water vapor cools down, forms tiny droplets of water and ice, and comes together to form clouds.