Tuesday 26 August 2008

Making Clouds and Rain

Yesterday me and my mom did a science experiment where we made rain and rain clouds. We had two pots. One had ice in it so that it was cold. (We also put it in the refrigerator for a few minutes.) And the other one had boiling water in it. First we made a few rainclouds by putting the pot with ice in it over the pot with the boiling water in it and waited a little bit. And how the clouds were made was that the water would turn into water vapor and it would rise up to the coldness and then in the coldness it would huddle together because it was cold and into big blobs, and that was a cloud. And you can see the clouds below. How we made the rain was that when the clouds were up there they were so cold that they would turn back into water, and little drops of water would come down, and that was the rain. Here is a picture of the pot with the ice in it.
And here is the pot with the water in it.