What is a cloud ?

Question

What is a cloud ?

Answer 1

that thing in youre head, everyone else has a brain

Answer 2

water vapour

Answer 3

just visible gas which will obsorbe water from lakes, ocean and cause percipitation wether it snow or rain

Answer 4

A cloud is a visible mass of droplets or frozen crystals floating in the atmosphere above the surface of the Earth or another planetary body. A cloud is also a visible mass attracted by gravity (clouds can also occur as masses of material in interstellar space, where they are called interstellar clouds and nebulae.) The branch of meteorology in which clouds are studied is nephology.On Earth the condensing substance is typically water vapor, which forms small droplets or ice crystals, typically 0.01 mm in diameter. When surrounded by billions of other droplets or crystals they become visible as clouds. Dense deep clouds exhibit a high reflectance (70% to 95%) throughout the visible range of wavelengths: they thus appear white, at least from the top. Cloud droplets tend to scatter light efficiently, so that the intensity of the solar radiation decreases with depth into the gases, hence the gray or even sometimes dark appearance of the clouds at their base. Thin clouds may appear to have acquired the color of their environment or background, and clouds illuminated by non-white light, such as during sunrise or sunset, may be colored accordingly. In the near-infrared range, clouds would appear darker because the water that constitutes the cloud droplets strongly absorbs solar radiation at those wavelengths Clouds are divided into two general categories: layered and convective. These are named stratus clouds (or stratiform, the Latin stratus means "layer") and cumulus clouds (or cumuliform; cumulus means "piled up"). These two cloud types are divided into four more groups that distinguish the cloud's altitude. Clouds are classified by the cloud base height, not the cloud top. This system was proposed by Luke Howard in 1802 in a presentation to the Askesian Society.

Answer 5

Part of the water cycle basically

when its hot the water vapour from the lakes get sucked up the sun heats them up and they turn into a gas (a cloud) they then move around the world basiiclaly! until they get so cold they turn into rain drops

tthats a cloud basically millinos fo raindrops basically!

Answer 6

a cloud is a mass of tiny water droplets or ice crystals formed when water-vapour in the air condenses.

Answer 7

water vapor

Answer 8

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.

*best answer*

Answer 9

clouds form from water vapor most comes from the sea its never ending cycle the more vapor the bigger the storm

Answer 10

A cloud is all the water evaporated, that have joing together to make a cloud. When the cloud is too heavy(when lots of water evaporates) it then rains.

Answer 11

It`s one of them white fluffy, cotton wool looking things up in the sky.

Answer 12

a cloud is ice that is formed by cold weather and when i gets full with ice it bursts into raindrops!!-))