Types of Precipitation

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Liquid and solid water particles that fall from clouds and reach the ground is called

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Precipitation

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What are rain, freezing rain, sleet, hail and snow considered?

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Types of Precipitation

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What forms when drops of liquid water fall all the way to the surface of the Earth? Options: Rain, Hail, Snow

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Rain

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What forms when water droplets become super chilled and freeze the instant they strike an object such as a road or car? Options: Hail, Sleet, Freezing Rain

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Freezing Rain

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What forms when water vapor turns directly into ice without passing through a liquid state?

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Snow

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What forms as a mixture of snow and rain, in addition to raindrops that freeze on their way down from clouds?

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Sleet

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What forms when water that gets caught in strong upward moving winds? (Options: Rain, Snow, Hail)

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Hail