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Clouds are constantly forming and disappearing as the atmospheric conditions change. From the wording of your question, however, it seems that you wish to know why clouds stay in the atmosphere and don't actually waft off into outer space. Clouds are made of water droplets that coalesce around tiny dust particles. They will rise to an altitude where their buoyancy equals their weight. At high altitudes, even the least dense, most buoyant clouds can no longer rise, because the atmosphere is so thin. Cirrus clouds are high-altitude clouds formed from ice crystals. They usually form above 16,000 feet. Cumulonimbus clouds are vertical-forming clouds that reach altitudes of 60,000 feet. They are associated with thunderstorms.
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∙ 16y ago
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∙ 9y agoClouds form when water evaporates from rivers, ponds, oceans, and lakes. The air containing this evaporated water vapor rises and expands at higher altitudes where the air pressure is lower. The expanding air cools, and as this cooling occurs, the water vapor condenses (changes) from a vapor to a liquid. Many tiny water droplets form and a cloud is born.
Conditions have to be just right for clouds to form. Nature needs tiny droplets of water, something for the droplets to cling to (particles like dust, salt, or smoke) and the right temperature.
clouds helps to regulate the nitrogen circle
because precipitation evaporates and then builds up and forms a cloud.......when it is foggy out you are in a cloud.....then the water condenses and become heavy and then it rains.
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∙ 9y agoThe sky has clouds because there are lots of ice crystal or water drops floating in the sky that make the clouds. The water turns into water vapor and as the water vapor gets higher into the atmosphere, the air get cools causing the water droplets to stick to bits of dust, sea or ice.
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∙ 12y agoIt is because that they are made up of water vapour (which is a form of gas) and it is light hence it stay up in the sky as long as the don't get heavy and rain.
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∙ 10y agogives us light in the morning.
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hey!The clouds in the sky are mostly made of ice crystals in the summer.
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no clouds
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cirrus clouds
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What is true about clouds in the summer sky?
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