Understanding Hail: A Quiz

What is hail?

• raindrops

• mixture of water droplets and ice

• type of thunder and lightning

• uncertain

Where does hail fall from?

• Thunderstorms and some tall thick clouds, cumulonimbus clouds

• Only from rain clouds

• Any kind of clouds

• Clear skies

How can hail be described in terms of size?

• Always tiny

• Uniform in size

• Tiny, medium, or large

• Always large

How does hail form?

• From melting snow

• Water droplets colliding in the below freezing part of a cloud

• Condensation of high clouds

• Freezing of ground water

What role do updrafts play in the formation of hail?

• Lift the water droplets into freezing air

• Cool the water droplets

• Form rain

• Push hailstones to the ground

What happens to hailstones inside a thunderstorm?

• They evaporate

• They melt

• They fall immediately to the ground

• They can gain more layers of ice

How can hailstones grow larger?

• By staying longer in warm air

• By falling quickly

• By clumping together and gaining more ice layers

• By absorbing rainwater

What determines the size of the hail?

• The temperature of the cloud

• The strength of the updraft

• The amount of rainfall

• The height of the cloud

What can large hail cause?

• Rainbows

• Cloud dispersal

• Damage

• Snow

How hail forms. include: hail, arrows, below freezing, wind, updraft. watervapor, evaporation, condensation