Why Do Clouds Float in the Sky?

Clouds are like puddles in the sky. When water from lakes, rivers, or oceans heats up, it turns into vapor and goes up into the air. As the warm air rises, it cools down, and that makes the vapor turn back into tiny drops of water, and that’s how clouds form! These little drops are so small they float up there like a bunch of tiny bubbles in the sky.

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A puddle dries up on a hot day, and the steam from it goes into the sky, just like little clouds.
You take a breath of warm air in a cold room, and it turns into tiny droplets that look like a cloud around your mouth.
A kettle whistles as water vapor escapes, it’s like a small cloud escaping from the kettle.

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