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Because clouds occur when water condenses from water vapour to tiny water droplets. Water condenses when it is cold enough, and higher up in the atmosphere, it is colder.
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What makes a cloud formation?
If you have ever heard of the water cycle that does it. Just type water cycle into google and it should come up with suggestions and answers. What are you doing it for anyway?
Are clouds and fog similar?
They are quite similar.Clouds are formed more higher up and are much thicker.Fog is formed lower down and is not as thick as a cloud.They are the same. Fog is a very low cloud. They can be the same density.The scientific terminoly for fog is = Fog is a cloud that is in contact with the ground. The only difference is the ground but a cloud may be considered partly fog; for example, the part of a cloud that is suspended in the air above the ground is not considered fog but the part of the cloud that comes in contact with higher ground is considered fog.
What conditions lead to the formation of a thunder cloud?
Warm moist air rising rapidly meeting cooler airabove. This leads to water vapor condesing andthe beginning of a cloud. This build-up continuesas more warm air rises until a towering cloudexists reaching 10 km above the surface. The topof this cloud consists of ice crystals.
A cloud is made up of?
Water particles
What is the life cycle of hail?
It starts life when water vapour in a cloud condenses onto a nucleating particle which may be a bit of dust. The droplet falls through the cloud. However, it is caught by an updraft which takes it up into higher and much colder regions of the cloud where it freezes. At the same time more vapour condenses on it and so it becomes a bigger piece of hail. It falls, due to gravity, only to be caught in another updraft. After several journeys up and down the cloud, the hail is too heavy for an updraft to raise it and so it falls to earth.
How does humidity affect cloud type?
Because it the humidity is in the cloud it makes the cloud warm so the cloud rises. So then the cloud is higher up.
What is the highest cloud in the sky?
With the exception of rare stratospheric noctilucent clouds, cirrus forms the highest cloud layer (also cirrostratus or cirrocumulus). In the tropics (where the troposphere is thicker, that is tropopause is higher) cirrus can generally occur up to 50-60,000 feet (15-18000 metres), sometimes higher when associated with tropical cumulonimbus anvils. Note that the possible height of cloud varies with location and airmass, so the highest cloud can occur in the tropics, the lower heights (with cirrus possible at 10,000 ft or 3500 m) in polar regions.
Does adiabatic cooling relate to cloud formation?
Adiabatic cooling relates to cloud formation in such, when it pushes air out of the way when rising, energy is released into the surroundings and the air cools "adiabatically." When the air that is cooling meets up with other air that is in the same situation, a cloud starts to forms, and when that cloud forms, it cools enough when it reaches a certain altitude and rains.
What are the five steps in cloud formation?
1. dust particles heat up 2. they rise 3. as they rise they cool 4. they cool to dew point 5. makes a cloud.
A low level cloud?
With the exception of rare stratospheric noctilucent clouds, cirrus forms the highest cloud layer (also cirrostratus or cirrocumulus). In the tropics (where the troposphere is thicker, that is tropopause is higher) cirrus can generally occur up to 50-60,000 feet (15-18000 metres), sometimes higher when associated with tropical cumulonimbus anvils. Note that the possible height of cloud varies with location and airmass, so the highest cloud can occur in the tropics, the lower heights (with cirrus possible at 10,000 ft or 3500 m) in polar regions.
Explain the four processes of cooling that can lead to cloud formation?
Clouds form when water evaporates, travels up the atmosphere, cools and then condenses.
Describe the formation of a thunderstorm?
When the cumulus cloud becomes very large, the water in it become large and heavy. Raindrops start to fall through the cloud when the rising air can no longer hold them up. Meanwhile, cool dry air starts to enter the cloud. Because cool air is heavier than warm air, it starts to descend in the cloud (known as a downdraft). The downdraft pulls the heavy water downward, making rain. This cloud has become a cumulonimbus cloud because it has an updraft, a downdraft, and rain. Lightning and thunder start to occur, as well as heavy rain. The cumulonimbus is now a thunderstorm cell.
Which type of bond leads to the formation of a molecule?
Covalent bonds occur between the atoms that make up molecules.
Why is the formation of cloud important in the movement of water in the water cycle?
because land should not have too much water as the water will cover up the earth.
Why does it rain when the clouds raise?
i think it's because as the higher up the atmosphere the cloud gets, the colder it is...therefore condensation occurs hence the cloud (evaporated water) rains.
Why is it raining so much in the northeast of us?
As the earth's oceans warm up due to climate changes worldwide, there are, concomitantly, increasing levels of evaporation of ocean water into the atmosphere; this combined with the fact that warmer air has a higher water capacity, creates increased cloud formation and subsequent higher levels of precipitation. No thanks needed here bloke. UK
What is a protoplanet?
A whirling cloud of gas or dust that becomes a planet by condensation during formation of a solar system. As the central body, or protostar, of the system contracts and heats up
