Weather Study Guide

Liquid water on Earth becomes a gas, called water vapor as part of the air through the process of__________

• Evaporation

• Condensation

• Precipitation

_____ happens in the air as water vapor changes back to droplets of water.

• Evaporation

• Condensation

• Precipitation

After condensation occors allowing the forming of clouds, any form of water that falls from the clouds is called ____________

• Evaporation

• Condensation

• Precipitation

_____ is frozen high in the sky and falls through cold air, remaining frozen all the way to the ground.

• Snow

• Sleet

• Freezing Rain

_____ starts hgih in the sky as liquid, but when travelling through cold air, it freezes into pellets and falls to the ground as a solid.

• Snow

• Sleet

• Freezing Rain

______ falls as rain, but freezes upon contact cold surfaces.

• Snow

• Sleet

• Freezing Rain

______ are both liquid. Rain is falling from higher altitudes, and drizzle is condensating out of lower clouds.

• Rain and drizzle

• Hail

• Freezing Rain

______ it is formed as water and it thrust upward in storm cells into colder air. The water forms ice pellets that continually get thrust up and down through warm and colder air.

• Rain and drizzle

• Hail

• Freezing Rain

If precipitation falls on land surfaces, it attempts to return to the ocean or lakes as_________.

• Rain and drizzle

• Hail

• Freezing Rain

• Run off

Thin, feather like, wispy, ice crystals inside, found high in the sky.

• Cirrus

• Cumulus

• Stratus