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What happens when rising air cools and water vapor condenses forming clouds?
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What kind of clouds form where the warm air rising?
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How does the Cumulonimbus cloud form in a tornado?
Cumilonimbus clouds do not form in tornadoes; tornadoes formin in cumulonimbus clouds. A cumulonimbus cloud forms when a warm, moist pocket of air rises and the moisture in it condenses, releasing heat that keeps the air rising. This is what drives any thunderstorm. Under the right conditions, the storm my start to rotate, and this rotation may eventually lead to the formation of a tornado.
When water is heated in the atmosphere what does it do?
If you're talking about the basic water cycle, starting in the ocean, water evaporates into vapor (Evaporation) rising up until it reaches it's the dew point, then the water condenses and travel towards higher ground, sometimes it travels as far as sea level ground (Condensation), when it reaches that heavy point where the clouds is too heavy to carry the water it drops taking about 10-15 minutes from the clouds to reaches the surface of the Earth if clouds are in the strato zone (Precipitation).
How do clouds heat and cool the earth?
The clouds play a role similar to the ozone layer. Ultra violet radiation coming from the sun strikes the clouds and the ozone layer and is repelled back into space allowing only "safe" light waves to hit the Earth. The ground absorbs heat, and then releases it. The rising heat reaches the clouds and is reflected back down to the Earth.
How do clouds defy gravity?
To say clouds defy gravity would be misleading, as they do not defy gravity. However rising air currents keep the clouds in the air. The air currents are stronger than the rate at which gravity makes the rain fall (which is not that fast). Clouds are so light, that even the smallest upward air current can make a clouds stay up. Rain falling is basically when the mass of the drops exceed the air currents.
What is the process involved in moving water through the hydrologic cycle from the hydrosphere to the atmosphere?
Water evaporates from the oceans rising up into the atmosphere where it condenses forming clouds.
Why does it rain a lot in japan?
The rising of hot air during the day which condenses to form the clouds. When the clouds become heavy, they fall as rainfall.
What are cumulonimbus clouds filled with?
Clouds are formed by rising pockets of warm air with water vapor in them. The water vapor then condenses, forming the cloud. Cumulonimbus clouds are just very large clouds that produce thunder-storms. Cirrus clouds are formed when the condensed water vapor freezes, giving the clouds a wispy look.
Why does air raising cause clouds to form?
Rising air contains water vapour which condenses as the air cools with altitude.
What happens when water evaporating rising and cooling?
The evaporated water forms clouds.
Why do you need the words evaporation and condensation to explain the water cycle?
Because that is exactly how it works and these are both everyday and scientific terms! The water is evaporated by the Sun's heat from the sea and lakes, is blown by winds over the land, rising as it does so until it reaches a point at which it condenses, initially forming clouds of microscopic droplets then precipitation.
What side of the mountains do clouds release moisture?
Condensation occurs on the windward side of a mountain. The rising air cools so the air becomes saturated and the water vapor condenses and causes it to rain.
What does a rising atmoshereic pressure indicate?
Changes in the barometric pressure indicate a change in the weather. A rising barometric pressure usually indicates clear, stable weather.
What does air do as it rises?
rising air expands then cools and condenses
When water vapor in rising air condenses it forms what?
evaporation
What clouds form from rising moist air?
Cumulonimbus, or thunderstorm, clouds form from rising moist air.
What does evaporated water do in a water cycle?
water vapor, which then condenses as it cools with the rising altitude and falls as rain
