Precipitation

What kind of precipitation is formed when water falls from the clouds and lands on the ground as liquid water?

• Hail
• Sleet
• Rain
• Snow

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

What can damage crops, homes, and cars?

• freezing rain 
• sleet 
• hail 
• snow 

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

What is precipitation?

• solids falling from the sky

• precipitation

• any form of water that falls from clouds and reaches earth's surface

• liquids falling from the sky

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

What is the most common precipitation?

• sleet

• freezing rain

• snow

• rain

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Six - sided ice crystals that occur in many beautiful, complex patterns.

• sleet

• hail

• snow

• freezing rain

Raindrops that pass through a layer of cold air as they approach Earth and freeze before hitting a surface.

• Freezing Rain

• Sleet

• Hail

• Snow

Ice crystals that rise and fall repeatedly with the updrafts and downdrafts of air currents in a thunderstorm.

• Snow

• Sleet

• Freezing Rain

• Hail

Snowflakes are actually clear not white.

• True

• False

Snowflakes appear white because...

• they are white

• they are frozen

• light is reflected from the ice crystals

• of their temperature

This form of precipitation reaches the Earth as liquid, but freezing temperatures at the Earth's surface cause it to freeze into ice when the liquid makes contact with an object.

• Snow

• Sleet

• Hail

• Freezing Rain