How Water Vapor Rises into the Atmosphere
During the process of evaporation, the Sun's energy heats up bodies of water like lakes, rivers, and oceans. This heat energy causes water molecules to gain kinetic energy, and they become more active and move faster.
Some of these highly energetic water molecules at the surface gain enough energy to escape into the air as water vapor. This newly formed water vapor rises into the atmosphere, moving from lower altitudes to higher altitudes.
As the warm, moist air containing the water vapor rises into higher altitudes, it cools down due to the lower temperature at higher levels of the atmosphere. The cooling causes the water vapor to condense back into tiny water droplets, forming clouds.
The process of condensation in the atmosphere is a crucial step in the formation of clouds and is closely linked with the process of evaporation in the water cycle.