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Q: What determines whether precipitation falls a rain or snow?
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Describe how does precipitation occur and what determines the type of precipitation that falls to Earth?

Precipitation occurs due to the immense collection of water vapor in the form of clouds. When the water vapor in these clouds gets too heavy, it falls. If it's cold enough, it falls as snow, or sometimes hail. Usually, however, it falls as rain.


What is the percentage of rain that falls back to earth?

100% of rain falls to Earth. That is the definition of rain. Precipitation.


What is rainforest precipitation?

The rain forest precipitation is greater that 150 cm. Rain forest precipitation is basically how much rain falls and collects on earth.


How do you spell percipitaion?

The word is spelled precipitation. When rain falls it is called precipitation.


What is it called when rain falls during the watercycle?

Precipitation


What that falls from clouds to earths surface?

Rain. Or precipitation.


What type of precipitation falls during a hurricane?

Rain.


What is moisture that falls to the ground as rain sleet or snow?

The liquid has 'precipiated' out of it's previous solution - so the rain/sleet/snow is precipitation.


When there is too much water in a thunderstorm cloud it falls as?

It falls as precipitation, such as rain, or hail.


What is it called when wet and falls from the sky?

rain is when wet falls from the sky and in England it tends to rain a awful lot!


When water falls from the sky in the form of rain it is called?

Precipitation


What is snow sleet rain or hail that falls to earth?

Precipitation