Weather vocabulary (Project Earth Section 1 & 2)

Made of water droplets that move close together

• Clouds

• Rain

• Sleet

Tiny ice balls that are covered with water

• Snow

• Sleet

• Hail

Round, hard ice balls. Can be size of baseballs

• snow

• sleet

• hail

"Blood showers"

• Blue rain

• Green rain

• Red rain

The drops of precipitation that are round in shape

• snow

• rain

• hail

Moves precipitation in and out of the clouds

• Wind

• Rain

• Clouds

When water turns into vapor

• Snow

• Green snow

• evaporation

water that falls from the sky

• sleet

• rain

• hail

Type of precipitation that has 6 sides and are never the same shape

• Hail

• snow

• rain

Small pieces of plants are in the snow flakes

• red snow

• green snow

• white snow