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Cloud Types and Formation Go to BrainPop and watch the cloud video. https://www.brainpop.com/science/weather/clouds/ Take the quiz and record your score. _____ Click on: http://science- edu.larc.nasa.gov/SCOOL/tutorial/clouds/cloudtypes_transcript.html to answer the following questions. 1. What does the word ”Cirrus” mean? 2. Are cirrus clouds low or high? 3. What are the large clouds that sometimes look like huge puffs of cotton? 4. What root word tells us that a cloud brings rain? 5. Which type of cloud usually covers the whole sky and brings gray days? Click on: https://weather.com/science/news/how-does-fog-form-20131010 http://www.metlink.org/other-weather/science-in-the-sky/fog/ to answer the following questions. 6. Fog is a _________ based on the ground, rather than in the atmosphere. 7. Fog forms when there is a lot of ___________ near the ground, or when the air near the ground __________ to the dew point. 8. What is dew point? 9. If air near the ground cools to this ______________ , water vapor from the air will become visible as __________ on the ground or _________ in the air. Click on: http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/cld/dvlp/cnvct.rxml to answer the following questions. 10. As the earth is heated by the sun, bubbles of _________ _________ or ____________ rise upward from the warm surface. 11. If a thermal is able to rise high enough to cool to its _____________ _____________ the moisture condenses and becomes visible as a ____________________. Now click on the blue highlighted hotlink labeled fair weather cumulus or Go to: http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/wwhlpr/fair_cumulus.rxml?hret=/guides /mtr/cld/dvlp/cnvct.rxml to answer the following questions. 12. Fair weather cumulus have the appearance of __________ __________ and have a lifetime of ____________ minutes. 13. Known for their _________ ___________ and distinct ______________, fair weather cumulus exhibit only slight ___________ ____________, with the cloud tops designating the limit of the rising air. 14. What can harmless fair weather cumulus clouds develop into? What type of weather are these clouds associated with? Now click on the blue highlighted hotlink labeled cumulonimbus or Go to: http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/wwhlpr/cumulonimbus.rxml?hret=/guid es/mtr/cld/dvlp/cnvct.rxml&prv=1 to answer the following questions. 15. Cumulonimbus clouds (Cb) are much ____________ and more ______________ developed than fair weather cumulus clouds. 16. They can exist as individual towers or form a line of towers called a ___ ____ . _ 17. What is a squall line of clouds? 18. Fueled by vigorous ____________ ______________ (sometimes in excess 50 knots), the tops of cumulonimbus clouds can easily reach ___________________ or higher. Click on: http://www.bom.gov.au/info/clouds/ and fill in the chart below. List the various cloud type, their description, and the weather that is associated with each. CLOUD TYPE DESCRIPTION WEATHER Take a white sheet of paper from supply area and very carefully draw and label the picture below.