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CLOUDS

CLOUDS. What are clouds?. http://retards.org/photography/dimage/photographs/2001/10/08/20011008_173048-800.jpg. Clouds are visible masses of ice particles or water droplets suspended in air. They are not a gas!!!. What does it take to make a cloud?. Cloud Ingredients :.

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CLOUDS

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  1. CLOUDS

  2. What are clouds? http://retards.org/photography/dimage/photographs/2001/10/08/20011008_173048-800.jpg

  3. Clouds are visible masses of ice particles or water droplets suspended in air. They are not a gas!!!

  4. What does it take to make a cloud?

  5. Cloud Ingredients: 1 – Water Vapor All clouds are made from water vapor that has condensed from the air.

  6. Cloud Ingredients: 2 – Dew Point Temperature Air must be cooled to its dew point for condensation!

  7. Cloud Ingredients: 3 – Condensation Nuclei A solid surface on which condensation can take place.

  8. How do condensation nuclei get into the air?

  9. Dust Storms http://www.mountwashington.org/notebook/images/drought/dust-storm.jpg

  10. ash

  11. Pollution (smoke)

  12. Forest Fires- smoke

  13. How do cloud droplets form? Vapor Coalesces

  14. Cloud Formation: • Warm, moist air rises. • Rising air cools to its dew point. • Water vapor condenses on particle to form liquid cloud droplets.

  15. * Clouds can only form in warm rising air!

  16. Resources • http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~sastry/calendar/clouds.jpg • http://retards.org/photography/dimage/index.php?keyword=sky&nav=keyword • http://apollo.lsc.vsc.edu/classes/met130/notes/chapter6/graphics/drop_cloud_ccn.gif • http://vortex.plymouth.edu/precip/CCN1.jpg • http://www.life.uiuc.edu/bio100/lectures/s97lects/05Succession/ruapehu.jpg • http://www.climatesolutions.org/images/burningFossil.jpg • http://www.jonesctr.org/research/graphics/forest_fire.jpg

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