Weather Precipitation

_____ is the description of current conditions of the atmosphere in a particular place.

• Weather

• Climate

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

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

• Hail

• Sleet

• Rain

• Snow

What is the most common precipitation?

• sleet

• freezing rain

• snow

• rain

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Ice pellets

• Sleet

• Frost

• Hail

• Rain

Large ice chunks

• Mist

• Snow

• Hail

• Glaze

Liquid droplets

• Rain

• Snow

• Sleet

• Hail

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

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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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Ice crystals

• Glaze

• Rime

• Snow

• Hail

While learning about the weather at school, Ayden noticed a connection between the average temperature and average rainfall in Naples. He observed that the moths with the highest temperature were also the same months with the highest amount of rainfall.

Which explanation below best describes why higher temperatures are linked to higher rainfall amounts?

• High temperatures increase evaporation, which leads to more precipitation.

• Low temperatures increase evaporation, which leads to more precipitation.

• High temperatures decrease evaporation, which leads to more precipitation.

• Low temperatures decrease evaporation, which leads to more precipitation.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Citlali went outside on a warm summer afternoon and observed a large cumulonimbus cloud moving toward her house.

What type of weather can she expect if this cloud passes over her house?

• A drizzle of rain with light winds.

• Strong winds with snow.

• No rain and no wind.                                                                                                          

• Heavy rain and strong winds.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5