Weather and Forms of Precipitation

What are the types of precipitation?

• rain, humidity, air pressure, sleet

• rain, snow, sleet, and hail

• rain, snow, sleet, hygrometer

• evaporation, condensation, precipitation, run-off

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What are puffy clouds that sometimes look like pieces of floating cotton called?

• cirrus clouds

• cumulonimbus clouds

• stratus clouds

• cumulus clouds

__________ is the weight of air pushing on everything around it.

• wind speed

• sleet

• air pressure

• water cycle

What tool is used to measure precipitation?

• rain gauge

• barometer

• thermometer

• anemometer

What forms in clouds where the temperature is below freezing as ice crystals or groups of many ice crystals called snowflakes?

• rain

• sleet

• snow

• hail

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Which statement about precipitation in NOT true?

• Most rain in the United States starts as snow.

• Hailstones can get bigger than a baseball.

• An area that has more thunderstorms is more likely to have hail.

• The type of precipitation that falls depends on the temperature in outer space.

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___________ is what happening each day in our atmosphere including temperature, rainfall, wind, air pressure, and humidity?

• Snow

• Weather

• Clouds

• Precipitation

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What is a measure of the amount of water vapor in the air?

• barometric pressure

• humidity

• rainfall amounts

• temperature

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What are the four major cloud types?

• cirrus, alto, cauliflower, storms

• cirrus, cumulus, strong, cumulonimbus

• cirrus, cumulus, stratus, condensation

• cirrus, cumulus, stratus, cumulonimbus

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What forms as a result of the strong updrafts common in thunderstorms usually in summer?

• hail

• rain

• sleet

• snow

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