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

For snow to fall, the air temperature must be what?

• Above 0 degrees celsius
• Below 0 degrees celsius
• Freezing
• Warmer at the ground than high in the air

True or False: Hail is formed by water falling from a cloud and freezing on the way to the ground.

• True
• False

How is sleet formed?

• Snowflakes fall, go through an area of cold air and turns into sleet before hitting the ground
• Rain falls, freezes in an area of cold air above the ground to make sleet
• Snowflakes fall and are melted a bit by warm air near the ground
• Sleet is not real

True or False: Hail is formed in the cloud and then falls to the ground.

• True
• False

Hail can usually only happen in which season?

• Winter
• Spring
• Summer
• Fall

The most common form of precipitation in the summer is...

• Rain
• Snow
• Sleet
• Hail

Snow is most common is which season?

• Summer
• Winter
• Fall
• Spring

Precipitation MUST start from where?

• Sky
• Clouds
• Sun
• Ground

If snowflakes fall from the sky, pass through an area of warm air, melt and fall to the ground as a liquid, what kind of precipitation is it?

• Snow
• Rain
• Sleet
• Hail