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What is it called when water droplets fall to the earth?
condensation
How does the gas form of water vapor differ from a cloud?
clouds are very, very tiny droplets of water in liquid form. The droplets are small enough for the air molecules bouncing around to keep them suspended. When enough tiny droplets combine, the droplet weight is enough to cause them to fall, making rain.
What kind of precipitation occurs when water droplets freeze as they fall to earth?
snow
What is the process in which water droplets from clouds?
airRain are water droplets that fall from the sky.If it is very cold, or there are layers of vary cold air that the rain passes through on the way down, the water droplets can become snow or balls of hail.
Why do cloud droplets not fall to the earth's surface as soon as they are formed?
The surface area to volume ratio of cloud droplets is very high, which results in an extremely slow terminal velocity. Such droplets are easily held aloft even by very weak air currents. Even if the droplets to start to fall, they will evaporate quickly in the unsaturated air below the clouds.
Why do clouds not tumble down from the sky?
Clouds are made up of tiny water droplets or ice crystals that are suspended in the air due to their low density. The upward movement of air currents, known as convection, helps keep clouds aloft. Additionally, the force of gravity is not strong enough to pull these particles down quickly enough for us to notice them.
What are droplets that fall from the sky?
airRain are water droplets that fall from the sky.If it is very cold, or there are layers of vary cold air that the rain passes through on the way down, the water droplets can become snow or balls of hail.
What water droplets that falls from the sky?
airRain are water droplets that fall from the sky.If it is very cold, or there are layers of vary cold air that the rain passes through on the way down, the water droplets can become snow or balls of hail.
What are clouds made of and why do they stay suspended in the air?
Clouds and fog are made up of super tiny water droplets. Largely, heat rising from the earth keeps the droplets up in the air, but even without that, the droplets are so light that they would fall very, very slowly, indeed - so slow that a person could not see it. Sometimes the droplets join each other and become heavy enough to noticably fall and become rain. (Or hail, sleet, snow)
Large water droplets that fall out of clouds?
rain
What is it called when water droplets fall to the earth?
condensation
What is the shape of water droplets floating on air?
All water droplets in the air is different just like when they fall down.
How does the gas form of water vapor differ from a cloud?
clouds are very, very tiny droplets of water in liquid form. The droplets are small enough for the air molecules bouncing around to keep them suspended. When enough tiny droplets combine, the droplet weight is enough to cause them to fall, making rain.
How do water droplets falling out of a thundercloud get bigger as they fall towards the earth's surface?
As water droplets fall from a thundercloud, they encounter other water droplets and become more massive through coalescence, where smaller droplets combine to form larger ones. The impact of gravity also causes the droplets to accelerate, which can lead to collision with other droplets, further increasing their size before reaching the Earth's surface.
When water droplets in a cloud combine and fall to the ground you are experiencing?
Precipitation
Why do liquid droplets not fall to the ground?
They do, it is called rain. But, they start off as very, very small molecules of water. They slowly start to cling together. Often, it takes something for the water to cling onto to start the accumulation process, a tiny spec of dust for instance. Until then, the winds and their absolute lightness keeps them in the air. Once they are big enough, the wind will no longer keep them in the air and they fall to the ground.
What must occur inside clouds before it rains?
clouds are made of condensed water vapor, so warm air rises in the atmosphere it cools. when the air cools to its dew point-the temperature at which air reaches saturaion-water vapor condenses into tiny droplets or ice crystals. the droplets and crystals are so light they either float as a cloud on rising air or fall very slowly
