an asteroid
water evaporates from the ocean to the atmosphere, falls back to earth as rain, and runs into the ocean.
As it falls through the atmosphere and heats up, the glowing streak of light is called a meteor. If fragments of the object actually get through the atmosphere and fall to the ground, the fragments are called meteorites.
It either gets absorbed by the earth or it evaporates and goes back into the atmosphere
psychrometer
Water in the atmosphere stays there as water vapor, or it condenses and falls as rain, snow, hail, etc.
A meteorite is a piece of rock that strikes the earth's surface.
If it burns up in the atmosphere, it is a meteor. If it manages to make it through the atmosphere and land on Earth, it is a meteorite. A really bright meteor is called a bollide.
If it falls on the Earth, it would be called a meteorite. If it burns up in the atmosphere, it is called a meteor and if it doesn't enter the atmosphere it is a meteoroid.
water evaporates from the ocean to the atmosphere, falls back to earth as rain, and runs into the ocean.
A loud whizzing stone may be referring to the sound a meteor makes when it falls to Earth. A meteor refers to space rocks that are able to break through the Earth's atmosphere and falls from the sky at a rapid speed.
Rain
As it falls through the atmosphere and heats up, the glowing streak of light is called a meteor. If fragments of the object actually get through the atmosphere and fall to the ground, the fragments are called meteorites.
A meteor. Technically, "meteor" is the fiery trail of the space rock as it falls. If the rock survives passing through the atmosphere, the rock (or fragments of it) are called "meteorites".
The Sun's output, and the absorption by the Earth's atmosphere.
Rain
It either gets absorbed by the earth or it evaporates and goes back into the atmosphere
Generally it falls into the atmosphere and burns up.