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Question

Describe how clouds form.

Answer 1

Here's a few simple readings about it for you...used it the other day to teach my son...whatta coincidence to see this question! Hope these links will help...let me know.

Answer 2

How do clouds form?

Clouds form by a process called condensation. Condensation is when water vapor changes into a liquid. This happens when the air is so moist that it can no longer hold any water. In other words, the air is saturated.

In order for anything to happen, the sun must heat the earth and in turn, heat the air above it. This warmer air will rise up into the atmosphere. We must keep in mind that there are also other lifting mechanisms that cause air to rise. As the air rises, it cools because it is not only expanding, but it is traveling further away from the heat source. Eventually the air will cool to its dewpoint. Now the air is saturated and the water vapor can condense onto tiny particals called condensation nuclei. When enough droplets condense, they become visible and we see them as clouds

Answer 3

A cloud is a visible mass of condensed droplets or frozen 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.

Clouds form when the invisible water vapor in the air condenses into visible water droplets or ice crystals. This can happen in three ways:

1. The air is cooled below its saturation point. This happens when the air comes in contact with a cold surface or a surface that is cooling by radiation, or the air is cooled by adiabatic expansion (rising).

This can happen along warm and cold fronts (frontal lift)
Or where air flows up the side of a mountain and cools as it rises higher into the atmosphere (orographic lift)
Also by the convection caused by the warming of a surface by insolation (diurnal heating)
But mostly when warm air blows over a colder surface such as a cool body of water.

2. Clouds can be formed when two air masses below saturation point mix. Examples are breath on a cold day, aircraft contrails and Arctic sea smoke.

3. The air stays the same temperature but absorbs more water vapor into it until it reaches saturation point.

Answer 4

Water evaporates from the sun's heat and changes from a liquid form into a gaseous form. Water vapors begin to rise into the atmosphere until the decreasing temperature as a result of higher altitude causes the gases to condense and form into clouds where tiny frozen water crystals are formed. These crystals collide with one another and form snowflakes which then fall as they become heavy and melt in warmer air below. The snow flake turns into rain, and wala you have rain.

Answer 5

Pleezzz learn to spell?!

And go do your own research.


I'll help someone who is willing to learn. Sounds like you just want a quick answer, sorry.

Answer 6

1.sunlight warms surface and evaporates water
2.a warm moist layer builds up
3.Rising air currents organize into "thermals"
4.water vapor in rising air parecls condenses to form a cloud
http://www.weatherquestions.com/How_do_clouds_form.htm
go to the website above and they give you a diagram about it!!!

Answer 7

condensation...where the water from the lakes or rivers or whatever...forms into a gas then forms into a cloud i wish i could explain it better

Answer 8

well i think in low air pressure evaporation gets together and forms clouds i don't no if its rite

Answer 9

it all in a process called condensation...look at this website....its a very simplified thing to understaand...hoped this helped =)

Answer 10

Oh WOW! I have no idea. I'm sorry! Is this for school or something?