Lesson 5: Water Interactive Flashcards
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is a large collection of very tiny droplets of water or ice crystals. The droplets are so small and light that they can float in the air.
cloud
What is the most common of the high clouds. They are composed of ice and are thin, wispy clouds blown in high winds into long streamers?
CIRRUS CLOUDS
Its thin, sheetlike high clouds that often cover the entire sky. They are so thin that the sun and moon can be seen through them.
CIRROSTRATUS CLOUDS
appear as small, rounded white puffs that appear in long rows. The small ripples in the cirrocumulus clouds sometime resemble the scales of a fish.
CIRROCUMULUS CLOUDS
Its a gray or blue-gray mid level clouds composed of ice crystals and water droplets. The clouds usually cover the entire sky. In the thinner areas of the clouds, the sun may be dimly visible as a round disk
ALTISTRATUS CLOUDS /ALTO CLOUDS
Its a mid level clouds that are made of water droplets and appear as gray puffy masses. They usually form in groups. If you see altocumulus clouds on a warm, sticky morning, be prepared to see thunderstorms late in the afternoon.
ALTOCUMULUS CLOUDS
Its a uniform grayish clouds that often cover the entire sky. They resemble fog that doesn’t reach the ground. Light mist or drizzle sometimes falls out of these clouds.
STRATUS CLOUDS
Its a low, puffy and gray. Most form in rows with blue sky visible in between them. Rain rarely occurs with stratocumulus clouds, however, they can turn into nimbostratus clouds.
STRATOCUMULUS CLOUDS
Its form a dark gray, wet looking cloudy layer associated with continuously falling rain or snow. They often produce precipitation that is usually light to moderate.
NIMBOSTRATUS CLOUDS
Its white, puffy clouds that look like pieces of floating cotton. Cumulus clouds are often called “fair-weather clouds”.
CUMULUS CLOUDS
Its a thunderstorm clouds. High winds can flatten the top of the cloud into an anvil-like shape. Cumulonimbus clouds are associated with heavy rain, snow, hail, lightning and even tornadoes. The anvil usually points in the direction the storm is moving.
CUMULONIMBUS CLOUDS
It is low hanging bulges that droop from cumulonimbus clouds. It usually associated with severe weather.
Mammatus clouds
It caused by a wave wind pattern created by the mountains. They look like discs or flying saucers that form near mountains.
Lenticular clouds
is a cloud on the ground. It is composed of billions of tiny water droplets floating in the air.
Fog
It is a condensation trails left behind jet aircrafts.
Contrails
It often associated with severe weather.
Green Clouds
Its small, ragged cloud fragments that are usually found under an ambient cloud base.
Fractus clouds
That water keeps going around and around and around and around and in what we call?
WATER CYCLE
The cycle is made up of a few main parts:
-evaporation (and transportation)
- condensation
- precipitation
- collection
It is the process by which water vapor in the air is changed into liquid water.
CONDENSATION
It is precipitation that falls the surface of the Earth as water droplets.
Rain
It refers to liquid raindrops that freezes when it hits the surface of the road or other object. Freezing rain forms icicles.
Freezing Rain
Rain that falls from the clouds but freezes before it reaches the ground.
Sleet
It is a frozen water vapor that falls to the ground.
Snow
