What are clouds made of? ?

Question

What are clouds made of? ?

Answer 1

water and air?

Answer 2

They are made of condensed water vapor.

Answer 3

Well, the truth is that clouds are made of both water droplets and ice crystals. Even in the winter when the temperature is under freezing point, clouds also have water droplets because their mass is so little that they can't become ice since it requires to dissipate heat energy.

It is then only when that undercooled water droplet meets something with a mass, like a tree leave, that it will freeze forming frost rim.

Only the very high cirrus clouds are only made of ice crystals.

Answer 4

Clouds are made of small droplets of water or bits of ice that are spread out from each other. Rain falls when the drops get too big and heavy to stay in the cloud.

There are three main kinds of clouds: cirrus,cumulus and stratus.

Each of these droplets of water is smaller than a grain of flour and they are so light that they can float on air.

(Interesting answer from 'spiderhedron' above!)

Answer 5

Underwater goats!?

Answer 6

Clouds are made up of two things:

1) Water/Moisture

2) Cloud Condensation Nuclei (CCN)

You need both to form a cloud.

If you want more info on CCN, check out this link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_conde...

Answer 7

Little tiny water droplets, small enough that they form a "suspension" -- small, numerous liquid drops floating in a gas (the air).  Clouds hold together because the polarity of the water molecule causes drops of water to attract one another slightly -- enough to hold the cloud together, but not so strong that one giant drop is formed (such a thing would immediately fall, of course, and that just doesn't happen).

You can also have clouds made of other stuff.  On Venus, the clouds have a lot of sulfuric acid.  On Jupiter, hydrogen and methane are present in large quantities.  There are numerous other examples already known, and we've just barely started exploring space.

Answer 8

Clouds are made out of condensating water. They are created in a process called the water cycle.

The Water Cycle:

Water evaporates from water bodies and forms clouds in the sky in a process called condensation. When too much water condensates it falls in the form of rain, hail or snow in a process called precipitation.

The water cycle is continuous and ever ends and chyeah (:

Answer 9

water

Answer 10

Clouds are made of very tiny droplets of water. The water vapor rises then when it gets high enough it cools and condenses into clouds.

Answer 11

What grade are you in??? you should of learned this in 2nd grade. Well anyway. The atmosphere always contains a little bit of invisible water vapor. Clouds form when the atmosphere can no longer hold all of the invisible water vapor. This happens when the air has reached 100% relative humidity. At this point any extra water vapor condenses into very small water drops that float in the air just like what happens in your bathroom when you take a shower. Warm air holds more water vapor than cool air. So if warm, moist air is cooled it will form a cloud. There are four ways that moist air can be cooled enough to form clouds. It can be cooled by the ground at night from infrared radiation. The generates fog, which is really just a cloud that never rose. Mountain clouds are formed when wind forces the air up a mountain ridge to where the air is cooler and water vapor condenses.Convection clouds occur when solar radiation heats up the earths surface and the heated air rises. As the warm air rises and cools, any water vapor condenses to form clouds. Frontal clouds form when a wind blows warmer moist air into cooler air. When the warmer air collides with the cooler air, clouds are formed.  

Answer 12

I think they are made of condensed water vapor.

Answer 13

Water...

Ever see fog?  If you've ever been outside when it is foggy... you are just standing in a big cloud.  :)

Answer 14

A cloud is a large collection of very tiny droplets of water or ice crystals. The droplets are so small and light that they can float in the air.