It's Cloudy!

by Kris Hirschmann

This book breaks down the concept of cloud formation to explain evaporation, water vapor, the four ways air rises, including convection, convergence, and orographic and frontal lifting, the dew point, condensation, and the formation of cloud droplets. Readers will also learn about updrafts, downdrafts, the life cycle of a storm cloud, and cloud names beginning with Luke Howard's classification system. Other chapters highlight low, middle, high, and...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1599289431
• ISBN13: 9781599289434
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Checkerboard Books
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.0" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 8 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 6