Click on  http://vathena.arc.nasa.gov/curric/weather/pricloud/index.html . Answer the following questions in your science notebook.  Please include the questions.

1.    What does the word cirrus mean?
2.    Are cirrus clouds low or high?
3.    What are the large clouds that sometimes look like huge puffs of cotton?
4.    What root word tells us that a cloud brings rain?
5.    Which type of cloud usually covers the whole sky and brings gray days?

Click on  http://www.fi.edu/weather/events/fog.html.  Answer the following questions in your science notebook.  Please include the questions.

6.    What is fog?
7.    How does fog form?

Click on http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/cld/dvlp/cnvct.rxml.  Complete  the following statements in your science notebook.  Please include the statements.

8.    As the Earth is heated by the sun, bubbles of _______ _______ rise
        upward from the warm surface.
9.    Vapor is able to rise high enough to cool to its ________ point.
10.   Moisture condenses and becomes visible as a _________.
 
 

You will observe clouds and weather for the next five days.  In your science notebook, head each page with title Cloud and Weather Observation.  Include the date and the time.  Draw a sketch of any clouds you observe, and label each cloud.  Write a brief paragraph describing the weather conditions.  When you complete the five-day observation, you will have five pages, one page for each day.