HardNature
"I am lighter than a feather yet I carry hundreds of tonnes of water. I have no shape yet I take every shape. I float even though I am enormously heavy. What am I?"
Answer
A Cloud
Explanation
Individual water droplets in a cloud are incredibly light. Yet a typical cumulus cloud contains around 500 tonnes of water. Clouds float because their droplets fall so slowly they are kept aloft by rising air currents.
This is a hard riddle in the Nature category — Riddles about the natural world, animals, weather and geography.
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