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WorksheetsPRECIPITATION!!!
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 9mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Define Precipitation
a)
solids falling from the sky
b)
precipitation
c)
any form of water that falls from clouds and reaches earth's surface
d)
liquids falling from the sky
2.
How is precipitation possible
a)
clouds crying
b)
the water cycle
c)
the kind hearts of others
d)
the sun crying
3.
What is precipitation?
a)
rain, snow, sleet, hail, etc.
b)
fog
c)
love
d)
the bogs
4.
What is the measure of water vapor in the atmosphere?
a)
Evaporation
b)
Precipitation
c)
Barometric Pressure
d)
Humidity
5.
Water droplets condense around _____________ to form a cloud.
a)
dust
b)
water
c)
cloud particles
d)
precipitation
6.
What type of precipitation forms when raindrops fall through cold layer of air and freeze before they hit the ground?
a)
Sleet
b)
Snow
c)
Rain
d)
Hail
7.
What form of precipitation is the only one that changes from water vapor directly to a solid?
a)
Rain
b)
Sleet
c)
Snow
d)
Hail
8.
If a thunderstorm cloud and the rain collides with ice, what forms?
a)
Rain
b)
Hail
c)
Snow
d)
Sleet
9.
If the air temperature is warm, the moisture falls as ___________.
a)
Rain
b)
Sleet
c)
Hail
d)
Snow
10.
________ is the form of precipitation is in the form of flakes of crystallized water that falls from clouds.
a)
Rain
b)
Snow
c)
Hail
d)
Sleet
11.
________ is freezing rain that falls mostly during cold weather.
a)
hail
b)
sleet
c)
snow
d)
rain
12.
Characteristics of Precipitation
a)
liquids and solids
b)
appearance
c)
freezing rain
d)
hail
13.
Clouds filled with water will become thicker and grayer and become too heavy for wind to carry them so the moisture falls to the ground as ________________.
a)
Rain
b)
Precipitation
c)
Snow
d)
Hail
14.
Precipitation that falls to the planet as ice crystals is known as _________.
a)
Rain
b)
Sleet
c)
Hail
d)
Snow
15.
A _________ is a round pellet of ice larger than 5 millimeters in diameter.
a)
snowflake
b)
hailstone
c)
sleet
16.
True or False. Rain, freezing rain, and sleet all are forms of precipitation that start to fall as liquid water.
a)
True
b)
False
17.
a visible mass of condensed water vapor floating in the atmosphere, typically high above the ground.
a)
sleet
b)
fog
c)
cloud
d)
cirrus
18.
A cloud at ground level
a)
cloud
b)
cirrus
c)
overcast
d)
fog
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