Science Quiz 25

What is falling water drops less than 0.5 mm in diameter?

• drizzle

• sleet

• snow

• freezing rain

What are ice crystals that have remained frozen?

• snow

• freezing rain

• sleet

• hail

What are raindrops that have frozen into tiny ice pellets?

• sleet

• hail

• freezing rain

• snow

What are layered balls of ice that form in strong thunderstorms?

• hail

• drizzle

• freezing rain

• sleet

What is the movement of water from the earth's surface, into the air, and back to the surface?

• hydrologic cycle

• Bergeron-Findeisen process

• collosion-coalescence process

• precipitation cycle

What is a brief period of light snowfall with little to no accumulation?

• flurry

• drizzle

• sleet

• squall

What is the general term for water falling to Earth's surface?

• rain

• precipitation

• drizzle

• squall

What is an extended period of heavy snow and high winds?

• blizzard

• squall

• precipitous event

• hydrologic event

Why can snow fall on a mountain while rain falls in an adjacent valley?

• The rain forms as snow and then melts in warm air.

• Cold mountain air freezes the rain into snow.

• Air at different altitudes has different types of particles

• Air at different altitudes has different humidities

What type of drought occurs when less rain than normal occurs but the effects on groundwater, crops, and people's use of water are minimal?

• socioeconomic

• agticultural

• hydrological

• meteorological