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They float because they are made of water and ice particles. All together, it's really heavy, more than an elephant. However, it's spread out over a really large area, so it's like an elephant cell. each particle is a micron, .00001 of an inch. a little draft is enough to keep that up, so they stay up because there are a lot of little drafts way up in the sky. It's a good question, and here's why. Clouds are made of water droplets and ice crystals. Together, these droplets and crystals weigh many tons. So if the typical cloud actually weighs as much as an elephant, why doesn't it plummet to the ground? Because unlike an elephant, a cloud's weight is spread out over a very large area. Plus, the cloud's droplets and crystals are very small--about one micron, or one-hundred-thousandth of an inch across. A cloud's individual particles are so small, in fact, that warm air rising from the earth's surface is able to keep them floating in the air. It's similar to how dust motes swirl in a shaft of sunlight. Although the bits of dust are affected by gravity, even the gentlest air currents are enough to keep them dancing around in the air. But clouds don't stay up in the air forever, of course. When the warm air keeping clouds afloat cools, its water vapor condenses and adds to the cloud's droplets. At a certain point the droplets become heavy enough to overwhelm the force of the rising air, and all that water falls to the ground. That's what we call rain!
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 10y agoClouds float because, maybe they weigh a lot, but their weight spreads and the water droplets and ice crystals are so tiny that they can be held in the air by the hot air of the earth and when its cold they drop.
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∙ 16y agoThey are made out of a thin substance that is very light. Clouds are made out of a very thin substance that is very light, and the wind carries it up into the sky.
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∙ 15y agoThey cause their weight is spread over a large area
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∙ 8y agoClouds are formed from minute water droplets, which are light enough not to be pulled to earth by gravity. Rain is formed when droplets combine to make a drop too heavy to 'float'.
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∙ 11y agoBecause I told them to
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∙ 16y agoBecause they are lighter than air.
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Do snow fall from the sky or clouds?
Clouds. But technically it is falling from the sky, from clouds in the sky.
What is the condition of the sky in relation to wind direction?
Well the condtion doesent revolve around the sky. the sky stays the same at all times. But if there are clouds in the sky then the condtions revlove around the clouds. For excample, of the wind direction you could see which way the clouds were going.
Is fog an clouds part of the atmosphere?
Yes, but they are clouds that are not high up in the sky. They are low clouds!
Precipitation is most likely to occur when the sky?
when the sky is clear and sunny
Where do clouds go to when the sky is blue?
Clouds occupy the sky for separate reasons. The sky is always blue, except when the sun's elevation is very low (sunrise/sunset) or on very hazy days. It is blue due to the way the atmosphere scatters the sun's light. This has nothing at all to do with why clouds might exist in the sky on a particular day.
Are clouds amorphous solids?
no clouds are are a gas which is why they can float around freely in the sky.
Name of fluffy things that float in sky?
clouds
What makes clouds float?
the heavenly sky gods
What is water that condenses to form these things that float in the sky?
clouds...?
Where do clouds go when its dark?
Clouds never really "go" anywhere, though, clouds are always floating which, eventually, causes them to float away. There are still clouds in the sky when it gets dark but they are harder to see.
Do snow fall from the sky or clouds?
Clouds. But technically it is falling from the sky, from clouds in the sky.
What two verbs desribe clouds?
Verbs don't describe nouns (cloud is a noun), verbs show actions or states. action - I walked to school state - I love her. Some verbs that could go with cloud are: sail - The clouds sailed across the sky. float - The clouds floated above me. race - The small clouds raced across the sky. loom - The black clouds loomed on the horizon.
Can you put the word amorphous in sentence?
The amorphous clouds passed in the sky, longing for a child to create a name, something familiar, for them to be recognized.Amorphous means to lack definite form and to have no shape. In my sentence, I described clouds as amorphous, because they have no specific shape; they endlessly float through the sky.
Are clouds clean in the sky?
clouds are clean.
What kind of clouds are covering the sky on weekend?
What kind of clouds are covering the sky on weekends
What has clouds in it?
the troposphere is where clouds form or if you want it to be simple clouds are in the sky.
What kind of clouds that are high in the sky?
cirrus clouds
