What are clouds for kindergarten?
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Asked by: Catherine Arrigo
A cloud is made up of liquid water droplets. A cloud forms when air is heated by the sun. As it rises, it slowly cools it reaches the saturation point and water condenses, forming a cloud. As long as the cloud and the air that its made of is warmer than the outside air around it, it floats!
Why do clouds float?
Clouds are composed primarily of small water droplets and, if it’s cold enough, ice crystals. The vast majority of clouds you see contain droplets and/or crystals that are too small to have any appreciable fall velocity. So the particles continue to float with the surrounding air.
How do clouds move?
The warm air rushes in to heat up the cooler air, and this is why we get winds in our weather. The wind can be so strong that it carries the clouds with them. Clouds are made up of water vapour, which may later fall to the ground as rain, hail or snow. The higher up you go in the sky, the faster the clouds move.
What makes a cloud bigger?
Moist air becomes cloudy with only slight cooling. With further cooling, the water or ice particles that make up the cloud can grow into bigger particles that fall to Earth as precipitation.
How are clouds formed?
Clouds form when the invisible water vapor in the air condenses into visible water droplets or ice crystals. For this to happen, the parcel of air must be saturated, i.e. unable to hold all the water it contains in vapor form, so it starts to condense into a liquid or solid form.
Why do clouds stay together?
If the surrounding air has a low humidity, the water droplets or ice crystals that make up the cloud quickly evaporate as the cloudy air mixes with its surroundings; this results in the cloud maintaining a sharp boundary.
Where do clouds go at night?
The ground the the warmth then Rises. And those bubbles of rising air come in and cause those clouds to form but when you take the warming away from the Sun these clouds will disappear.
How heavy is a cloud?
about 1 billion 400 million pounds
Answer: Thus, a ‘typical’ fair weather cumulus cloud “weighs” about 1 billion 400 million pounds, or about 800 million pounds less than dry air of cqual volume. Thats a lot of weight!
How large is a cloud?
Summer cumulus clouds vary in size, but a typical one would be about one kilometre across and about the same tall. This means we can consider it to be a cube, with each side measuring 1km across. That means our cloud is 1,000 x 1,000 x 1,000 cubic metres in size – and this makes 1 billion cubic metres.
