Hydrometeors

Which of the following is a Hydrometeor?

• Dust Storm

• Cloud

• Sky

• Lightning

What type of cloud is fog?

• Cumulonimbus

• Altocumulus

• Cirrostratus

• Stratus

What is a type of hydrometeor that is made up of tiny ice particles that float freely around the ground?

• Ice Fog

• Drifting Snow

• Snow Devil

• Fog

Which of the clouds are convective?

• Cirrus

• Nimbostratus

• Cirrocumulus

• Cumulus

Which meteor does not belong to the hydrometeor group?

• Rainbow

• Cloud

• Rain

• Sea Spray

Select a precipitation that has the biggest particles

• Drizzle

• Snow Grains

• Hail

• Rain

How does rain form? Select the best answer

• Clouds dissipate and fall into the ground

• Clouds generating droplets

• Cloud droplets merging into one bigger droplet

• Condensation of cloud droplets into rain drops

Graupel is a type of ( ? ), they are frozen spheres that falls from the bases underneath the clouds

This precipitation is very common, it is ( ? )

What is virga?

• An alternative name for tornado

• A streak of evaporated rain

• Unique Cirrus cloud falling from clouds

• Sleet