CL A S S I F Y I N G CL O U D TY P E S TH R O U G H
IN F R A R E D APT IM A G E RY
Your teacher will provide your group with a set of cards containing information about clouds. Lay each card on the desk.
Look at the illustrations of each cloud and the information contained.
- Divide your cloud cards into at least two - or more - groups based on the information and pictures with which you have
been provided. Give each of your cloud-groups a name. How did your science group classify the clouds? List each
group and describe how your group made its decisions. - Na me some other ways that the same clouds could have been classified. Do you think any one way of classification is
better than any other? Why or why not? - Th e temperature of the air in the atmosphere changes with its altitude above the surface. Your teacher will provide you
with a worksheet entitled Cloud Type Survey. To understand how this change occurs, plot a graph on the worksheet that
indicates air temperature at several different altitudes. Assume that the temperature of the surface is about 15 degrees
Centigrade (about 59 degrees Fahrenheit). Use the data provided in the table, standard atmosphere, altitude and
temperature, to plot your graph.
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