How can you tell the difference between a stratus and a stratonimbus cloud?

A stratonimbus cloud is darker than a stratus cloud and causes rain.

Where do clouds come from?

Clouds are made when liquid evaporates and then condensates in the sky.

What is condensation?

Water vapor turns back into a liquid

Stratonimbus storms usually cause rain all day because?

The clouds are very wide so they spend a long time over one area.

Tropical climate zones are very wet and humid because?

Sunbeams shine directly on them causing more water evaporation and rainfall

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1
If you met someone from another country what questions could you ask to figure out what climate they are from?
Does it rain a lot or a little?
Do you need a winter coat where you are from?
All of them
What wild animals do you have and plants do you have?
2
How can you tell the difference between a stratus and a stratonimbus cloud?
A stratus cloud is small and a stratonimbus cloud is very tall.
A stratonimbus cloud has a lighter color.
Stratus cloud only covers part of the sky, stratonimbus covers all the sky.
A stratonimbus cloud is darker than a stratus cloud and causes rain.
3
Where do clouds come from?
Clouds are made when liquid evaporates and then condensates in the sky.
They just appear in the sky.
Clouds are big and fluffy.
They get blown from the ocean.
4
Chantal loves warm weather and enjoys hiking in green forests. What climates would you suggest she visits?
desert
Tropical or a mild climate
polar
Tropical
5
Why is it so much hotter near the equator than at the poles?
Both red and gold
At the equator the sun's rays hit the earth straight on
At the poles the sun's rays hit the earth at a slant.
Because it is always sunny
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What is condensation?
A liquid turns into water vapor
Water vapor turns back into a liquid
Water collecting in the ocean
Something that happens in the sky
7
Stratonimbus storms usually cause rain all day because?
They turn into cumulus clouds.
There is no hail in stratonimbus storms.
They turn into stratus clouds.
The clouds are very wide so they spend a long time over one area.
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Tropical climate zones are very wet and humid because?
The temperature is cold.
They have many types of plants.
Sunbeams shine directly on them causing more water evaporation and rainfall
The Earth travels in a circle around the sun.

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