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Weather Vocab Wk 1
Science Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Stratus Clouds | blanket like clouds that often produce long steady prescipitation |
| Cumulus Cloud | puffy clouds with a flat bottom and that bring fair weather |
| Cirrus Clouds | wispy,feather like shape;seen sunny days |
| Cumulonimbus Clouds | produce heavy and brief thunderstorms and the only clouds to form vertically (up and down) |
| Fog | low lying stratus clouds |
| Rain | falls through warm air from the cloud all the way to the ground |
| Snow | falls through cold air from the cloud all the way to the ground |
| Sleet | falls as a raindrop from the cloud and then falls through cold air at the ground "frozen raindrop" |
| Hail | produced by a cumulonimbus cloud-moves up and down in the cloud and grows lager and larger |