Part 2 Chap 3 Exploring

Match the following

• beads of frozen rain that fall from the sky

• hail

• frozen raindrops that are bounced up and down by the air in a thunderstorm. Fall in shapes of stones

• sleet

• ice crystals of frozen water vapor

• snow

In what shape is a raindrop?

• perfectly round

• perfectly squared

• a golf ball

What does a raindrop begin as? Draw it.

What does a snowflake begin as?

How many sides does a snowflake have?

What kind of precipitation is rain falling through freezing air?

• sleet

• hail

• snow

What kind of precipitation is frozen balls of ice?

• sleet

• hail

• snow

Give me one season that hail falls.

Where does hail form?

True or false

A raindrop is first called a droplet.

• True

• False