Types of Precipitation

Ice pellets

• Sleet

• Frost

• Hail

• Rain

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Ice crystals

• Glaze

• Rime

• Snow

• Hail

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Large ice chunks

• Mist

• Snow

• Hail

• Glaze

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Liquid droplets

• Rain

• Snow

• Sleet

• Hail

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What kind of precipitation is formed when water falls from the clouds and lands on the ground as liquid water?

• Hail
• Sleet
• Rain
• Snow

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Snow is most common is which season?

• Summer
• Winter
• Fall
• Spring

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Precipitation MUST start from where?

• Sky
• Clouds
• Sun
• Ground

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What can damage crops, homes, and cars?

• freezing rain 
• sleet 
• hail 
• snow 

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What is the most common precipitation?

• sleet

• freezing rain

• snow

• rain

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What is precipitation?

• solids falling from the sky

• precipitation

• any form of water that falls from clouds and reaches earth's surface

• liquids falling from the sky

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