☁️ Part 1: Match the Clouds

I can identify cirrus, stratus, and cumulus clouds by their visible features.

Success criteria: I can use words such as high, low, wispy, layered, puffy, and heaped to describe clouds.

Directions: Look at each cloud image box. Write the number of its matching description on the line.

A. Cirrus

Match: ______

B. Stratus

Match: ______

C. Cumulus

Match: ______

1. These clouds are puffy or heaped. They often appear in fair weather, but they can grow into storm clouds.

2. These clouds are high and wispy. They may signal a change in weather.

3. These clouds are low, flat, and layered. They often bring gray skies and light precipitation.

Word bank: cirrus stratus cumulus high low wispy flat layered puffy fair weather

✏️ Part 2: Explain and Predict

4. How can observing clouds help a meteorologist?

5. Journal: Complete the sentence using evidence from the cloud’s appearance and the text.

A meteorologist sees ______ clouds. I predict ______ because the clouds look ______ and the text says ______.

Support: Use the word bank. You may draw the cloud before writing.

Extension: Explain how a change from one cloud type to another might change a forecast.

Look at the shown cloud. Use complete thoughts and scientific vocabulary.

6. Name the cloud shown.

7. Describe one visual feature.

8. Explain one possible forecasting clue this cloud gives a meteorologist.