Precipitation

What is precipitation?

• water droplets or ice crystals in the atmosphere

• the amount of moisture in the air

• water falling to the ground from the atmosphere

• the condition of the atmosphere at a time and place

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

What form of precipitation will fall if the air temperature is above freezing (0° Celsius or 32° Fahrenheit)?

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Which column in the diagram shows how rain falls?

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

What form of precipitation will fall if the air temperature is below freezing (0° Celsius or 32° Fahrenheit) from the cloud to the ground?

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Which tool allows one to measure the amount of snow that has fallen?

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What form of precipitation will fall if the droplets pass through a layer of freezing air (colder than 0° Celsius or 32° Fahrenheit) before they reach the ground?

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Which column in the diagram shows how snow is formed?

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Which type of precipitation is made of layered ice spheres that fall from the cloud pictured here?

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

What tool determines the amount of rain, sleet, and hail that has fallen in an area?

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Select ALL the states of matter precipitation can be.

• solid

• liquid

• gas

• heat

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-PS1-4