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Vocabulary Science 2
This weeks vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Stratus Clouds | blanket like layers that often produce long steady precipitation |
| Cumulus | 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 level stratus clouds |
| Rain | falls through warm air from the cloud all the way to the ground |
| Snow | falls through cold air from the cloud 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 larger and larger. |