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Warm air is forced upwards
Meets up with cold air
Then both cool and
condense around
dust particles.
Classified by shape and size
•Shape and size vary
with …
•temperature
•air pressure
•Amount of water
vapor in the atmosphere
(humidity)
Some clouds are
•Low and flat
•Extend high into the sky
Some dense clouds bring
•Rain
•Snow
On sunny days…
thin and wispy clouds appear in the sky.
The three
main cloud
types by
shape
stratus, cumulus, and cirrus
Stratus Clouds
form layers of
Flat, smooth, even sheets of clouds in the sky.
Stratus clouds usually form at low altitudes
Cumulus clouds…Puffy
•masses of puffy, white clouds
•Found at all heights/altitudes
Cirrus Clouds
Cirrus clouds are curly, almost like hair
Very cold and produce snow or ice
crystals
Form very high in the stratosphere
COMBO-CLOUDS
A cloud can have a prefix or suffix
that tells more about it like where the
cloud is located in the atmosphere…
Cirro= high altitude
Alto=middle altitude
Strato=low altitude
Nimbus
=bad/
precipitation
Examples:
Prefix Cloud Type Suffix
CirroAltoStratoCirroAltoAlto-
AltoAlto-
cumulus
cumulus
cumulus
stratus
cirrus
stratus
StratusCumuluscumulusstratus-
nimbus
nimbus
nimbus
nimbus
= Cirrocumulus
= Altocumulus
= Stratocumulus
= Cirrostratus
= Altocirrus
= Altostratus
= Stratusnimbus
= Cumulonimbus
= Altocumulonimbus
= Altostratusnimbus
Can you draw a Cumulus Cloud???
Can you draw a Cirrus Cloud?
Can you draw a Stratus Cloud??