CLOUD TYPES: CLASSIFIYING AND IDENTIFYING CLOUDS

Classification of Clouds based on Shape and Elevation

2. •Classify and name the types
of Clouds

3. Vocabulary Words
•Water Vapor-gaseous phase of water
•Condensation- the process where water vapor
becomes liquid.
•Clouds- a mass of floating water droplets or ice
crystals.

4. How do clouds are formed?
Clouds form when the water vapor
in the air condenses into water
droplets or ice crystals.

6. How do Clouds are being classified?            
 
Clouds are classified according to
their height above and appearance
(texture) from the ground.                  
 

7. Classify clouds base on shape

8. •Cirrus- thin and wispy
>>Latin- hair

9. •Cumulus- puffy or cotton-like
>>Latin- heap or pile

10. •Stratus- sheet like
>>Latin- layer

11. •Nimbus- Rain
>>Latin- Clouds

14. Naming of Clouds

17. More about Clouds

18. Cirrus
•Thin, wispy clouds.
These clouds are
formed by ice
crystals because
they are so high
up.

19. Cirrostratus
•Very thin sheets of
clouds that cover large
parts of the sky.

20. Cirrocumulus
•Clouds that are
very high up, but
look a little puffy.
They may look
similar to fish
scales.

21. Altocumulus
•Mid-level cloud, kind of
gray and puffy.
Common on hot, humid
summer days. Usually a
sign that thunderstorms
will follow later in the
day.

22. Altostratus
•Covers the entire
(or most) of the
sky. Can form
before rain
storms.

23. Stratus
•Low-lying, gray
clouds that
cover all or
nearly all of the
sky.

24. Nimbostratus
•Dark gray
clouds that
produce falling
rain or snow.

25. Cumulus
•Fair weather
clouds, that
look like
floating cotton
balls.

26. Cumulonimbus
•Very tall, puffy,
thunderstorm
clouds. Produce
rain, lightning,
hail, and/or
tornadoes.

27. There are a few more cloud types
that are RARE, like contrails or
lenticular clouds
•If interested in
those rare types,
please do a google
image search on
your own…

28. “Whats the cloud?Thats the
cloud!!

29. CIRRUS

30. CUMULUS

31. CIRROCUMULUS

32. CUMULONIMBUS