Vonda Coffman  April 2000

Survival Unit
Unit Objectives
Unit Overview
Our story begins
On the cruise
Change in plans
Trouble is here
Intermission
Off the ship
On the raft
land-ho
Resources

hear the theme song for Gilligan's Island.

 
weather

One of the skills that you have developed since living on the island is the ability to predict the weather by watching the sky, in particular, cloud formations.

Refer to the weather chart below and the Internet to answer the following questions on a sheet of lined notebook paper labeled "Weather":

What type of weather do the following clouds usually represent?

1. cumulus; 2. cumulus congestus; 3. cumulus humilis and a cumulus fractus; 4. cumulonimbus; 5. mammatus; 6. lenticular; 7. nimbostratus; 8. stratus; 9. stratocululus; 10. cirrus; 11. altocumulus; 12. cirrostratus; 13. irrocumulus; 14. altostratus.

 

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