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Cloud Types Formation Webquest

This document is a web quest that provides information about different cloud types and their formation. It asks the student to visit several websites to learn about clouds and answer questions. The questions cover topics like the appearance of different cloud types like stratus, nimbostratus and cirrus clouds. It also asks about fog formation and the condensation process involved in clouds forming from rising thermals of warm air that cool to the dew point. The student is instructed to draw diagrams of the cloud types on the back of the page and indicate their typical positions in the sky.

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Cloud Types Formation Webquest

This document is a web quest that provides information about different cloud types and their formation. It asks the student to visit several websites to learn about clouds and answer questions. The questions cover topics like the appearance of different cloud types like stratus, nimbostratus and cirrus clouds. It also asks about fog formation and the condensation process involved in clouds forming from rising thermals of warm air that cool to the dew point. The student is instructed to draw diagrams of the cloud types on the back of the page and indicate their typical positions in the sky.

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Name:

Date:
Hour:
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

http://www.slideshare.net/whitneyhgodfrey/cloud-types-and-formation-web-quest

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

http://www.slideshare.net/whitneyhgodfrey/cloud-types-and-formation-web-quest

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