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Why are water droplets and ice crystals heavy but can t stay in the air?
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∙ 13y ago
GRAVITY Gravity is pulling on the water droplets and ice crystals just like everything else, so they fall to earth and that is why they can't stay in the air.
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Why does droplets of water come out when a wet cloth is jerked?
When a wet cloth it jerked the water on it is given kinetic energy. When you stop the movement of the wet cloth by not letting go of it some of the water keeps propelling forward with the energy it was given and does thus not stay on the cloth.
Is fog a gas or liquid?
As far as I know, it's a load of miniscule water droplets suspended in the air because they are small and light enough to. It wouldn't be a gas, but a liquid that is so small that you can hardly see it.
Why do we need gravity?
Without it you would be floating in space or wearing heavy shoes to stay on the ground.
Why does warm water stay on top of cold water?
Warm water is less dense.
Is it possible to stay afloat in water for long periods of time with clothes on?
It is impossible
When water vapour condenseit form tiny drops of water that forms clouds when do this droplets come down as rain?
Individual droplets are so small, that they can stay suspended in the air. If the droplets combine into larger drops that are too heavy to stay suspended, they fall as raindrops.
What are Droplets that become so large and heavy that they can no longer stay up in the air fall to earth's surface?
they are droplets of water ( the water that drops from clouds are 0.02 mm an average rain drop is 2 mm ) or they are droplets of ice (like hail)
If Water is heavier than air so why do clouds stay up in the sky?
Because all the droplets haven't come together yet so it isn't as heavy as water yet. Water vapor (a gas) rises up until it gets cool enough to turn to droplets. These droplets are clouds in all their amazing forms.
How does the clouds make water?
Simple answer: They don't. Clouds ARE water - tiny, tiny droplets of water just like fog. If colder air moves into a cloud, it causes there to be even more water droplets forming. When the droplets get close enough together, they start touching and turning themselves into even larger droplets. Then the "even larger" water droplets touch, and make water drops . . . at some point in this process, the water droplets grow large enough that they are too heavy to stay where they are, and then they fall to the ground. This falling to the ground is what we call, "Rain".
What is the science behind clouds - if they're not in space how do they stay up?
They are made of water droplets and they do not stay up. The water comes down as rain.
How does precipitation eventually return to the oceans?
Precipitation. Continued cooling of the water vapor in the clouds causes water droplets to grow. Eventually, droplets join other droplets and form drops too heavy to stay in the clouds. The heavy droplets begin to fall as rain. The movement of raindrops from the atmosphere to the Earth is precipitation. Snow may form instead of raindrops if the water vapor condenses below the freezing point.Some areas lose more water to evaporation than they gain as precipitation. Other locations receive more precipitation than they lose to evaporation. Whatever the form of precipitation, water lost by evaporation over the entire surface of the Earth equals the amount of water falling as precipitation.
How does the water cycle work?
Evaporation:on a warm sunny day, water in a glass of water seems to slowly disappear. this is because the energy from the sun is heating the water up and turning the liquid water into water vapor. this process is called evaporation. when the water evaporates, it becomes an invisible gas in the atmosphere. evaporation takes place all over the earth, but especially in the oceans and lakes where there is lots of water.condensation:as the water vapor rises, it cools off and condenses into water droplets, if the water vapor becomes extremely cold, it will form ice crystals instead of water droplets. as the water droplets or ice crystals grow bigger and more numerous, they form clouds.precipitation:if water droplets or ice crystals become too heavy, they can't stay in the air. they precipitate. water droplets precipitate as rain and ice crystals precipitate as snow. sometimes, the rain freezes before it hits the earth and precipitate as hail.runoff:this precipitation gathers into streams and rivers that flow down to the lakes and oceans. this is called runoff. not all the water makes it back to the oceans and lakes right away. some is frozen into glaciers. eventually, the animals and plants breathe the water out and the glaciers melt, releasing the water back into the water cycle.the end:hi so that was my way of talking bout the water cycle. actually i got this from a worksheet. copied it down. so yeah. and that worksheet came from my teacher. ms.behrakis. she is actually a mad scientist. she knows alot-im not kidding. she worked for the government, and worked in a real lab. surprising how she isnt teaching university. well anyway thanks and bye!!!!
Why do clouds stay in the clouds?
I think you mean 'Why do clouds stay in the sky?' An answer to that question is: because the water droplets are so small and so high in the atmosphere, they are able to stay airborne until they condense and gravity pulls them to the ground as rain or the droplets evaporate completely and become invisible water vapor.
What happens when iodine crystals are placed in water?
They will dissolve until the water is saturated then the remaining crystal will stay intact.
Why do we have rain?
We have rain because of the sun's heat evaporates the water, and the condensation forms clouds. Then in the right conditions the tiny condensation droplets coalesce into larger raindrops too heavy to stay floating in the cloud, so they fall under gravity.
Where do the water vapors go when they rise up in the air?
Depending on weather conditions, it can stay in the air making it feel humid and muggy; it can form a fog close to the ground or it can form clouds higher in the sky and becomes rain or snow. Sometimes it condenses on the surface as dew or freezes on the surface as frost. Some remain as vapor, some condense out as water droplets, some freeze out as tiny ice crystals. When enough condenses out as water droplets within a certain space they form clouds. When the water droplets in the clouds merge and grow large enough they fall as rain. When enough freezes out as ice crystals within a certain space they form ice clouds (e.g. the high altitude cirrus clouds). etc.
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)
