#15B Precipitation

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 ________________.

• Rain
• Precipitation
• Snow
• Hail

This diagram shows how a certain type of precipitation is formed. Water drops are caught in up-drafts and down-drafts, over and over, before they fall to Earth as...

• dew.
• hail.
• rain.
• snow.

What is the most common form of precipitation?

• sleet 
• freezing rain
• snow 
• rain 

Which form of precipitation will cause crop damage, and dent cars?

• freezing rain 
• sleet 
• hail 
• snow 

How is precipitation possible?

• water laughs 
• the water cycle
• the kind hearts of others
• the sun is crying

Precipitation that falls to the planet as balls of ice caused by repeated updrafts in the clouds is known as what?

• Rain
• Sleet
• Hail
• Snow

Precipitation that falls to the planet as ice crystals is known as...

• Rain
• Sleet
• Hail
• Snow

What type of precipitation forms when raindrops fall through cold layer of air and freeze before they hit the ground? 

• Sleet
• Snow
• Rain
• Hail

If the air temperature is warm, the moisture falls as ___________.

• Rain
• Sleet
• Hail
• Snow

What form of precipitation is the only one that changes from water vapor directly to solid ice crystals?

• Rain
• Sleet
• Snow
• Hail