what is a cloud?

Answer 1

A cloud is a visible mass of condensed droplets or ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere above the surface of the Earth or another planetary body. The branch of meteorology in which clouds are studied is nephology.

On Earth, the condensing substance is water vapor, which forms small droplets of water (typically 0.01 mm of ice crystals) that, when surrounded with billions of other droplets or crystals, are visible as clouds. Dense deep clouds exhibit a high reflectance (70 to 95%) throughout the visible range of wavelengths: they thus appear white, at least from the top. Cloud droplets tend to scatter light very efficiently, so that the intensity of the solar radiation decreases with depth into the cloud, hence the grey or even sometimes dark appearance of the clouds at their base. Thin clouds may appear to have acquired the color of their environment or background, and clouds illuminated by non-white light, such as during sunrise or sunset, may be colored accordingly. In the near-infrared range, however, clouds would appear very dark because the water that constitutes the cloud droplets strongly absorb solar radiation at these wavelengths.

Answer 2

In music a cloud is a sound mass consisting of statistical clouds of microsounds and characterized first by the set of elements used in the texture, secondly density, including rhythmic and pitch density (Roads 2001, p.15). Clouds may include ambiguity of rhythmic foreground and background or rhythmic hierarchy.
A cloud is a visible mass of condensed water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere above Earth's (or another planetary body's) surface
A group of tiny white inclusions that result in a milky or cloudy appearance.
A visible collection of very fine water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere at altitudes from just above the ground to several miles above sea level.

Answer 3

ok when a cloud gets full of water it precipitates back to the earth as rain, snow, sleet, or hail. once the water hits the earth, it sits and eventually is evaporated into the sky. this evaportion forms its self together with multiple little particles in the sky to create clouds

Answer 4

Water vapor, gas, steam are ALL INVISIBLE. Clouds are NOT water vapor. Clouds are microdroplets of condensed liquid water that are held aloft by updrafts of air.

Answer 5

a cloud is water that has been changed to a gas form. H2O.

Answer 6

well its really hard to make them. there's a guy who flies in a jet with a bag of cotton candy. as he's flying, he opens the window n lets the cotton candy out n it stays floating n it becomes a cloud.

Answer 7

water vapour thing