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What is moisture that falls to the ground as rain sleet or snow?
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∙ 10y ago
The liquid has 'precipiated' out of it's previous solution - so the rain/sleet/snow is precipitation.
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∙ 7y ago
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All the moisture that falls from the sky is called?
Rain, hail, dew, snow, sleet.
What is the name given to the release of condensed matter back to the ground in the form of sleet snow hail or rain?
Rain,snow, sleet are forms of precipitation. Precipitation is any condensed water vapor that falls to the ground.
Compare and contrast freezing rain and sleet?
Sleet falls to the ground already frozen. Freezing rain doesn't freeze until it comes in contact with grounds or power lines that are below 32 degrees.
How snow starts off as sleet?
Sleet starts as snow, then falls through a layer of the atmosphere that is above freezing whereupon it melts into rain. Finally, it falls back into colder air and refreezes as ice pellets (sleet) before reaching the ground.
What are Frozen drops of rain that fall as pellets of ice and water?
This is frozen rain, which can be part of an ice storm. (Sleet is rain that freezes into ice pellets as it falls.)
What word begins with p is the name you give to moisture that falls from the air to the ground such as snow sleet hail drizzle and rain?
precipitation
All the moisture that falls from the sky is called?
Rain, hail, dew, snow, sleet.
What s the definition of precipitation?
Rain, snow, sleet or hail that falls to the ground
When moisture falls to the ground from cloud what is it called?
It is rain.
What is precipitation in a cycle?
liquid or solid water falls to the ground as rain,sleet,snow,and hail
Where does sleet occur in most?
Sleet does on the wintry precipitation, sleet starts with rain falls in the cold layer on the ground, it refreezes into pellets and then it comes down with bouncing on every surface.
What is the name given to the release of condensed matter back to the ground in the form of sleet snow hail or rain?
Rain,snow, sleet are forms of precipitation. Precipitation is any condensed water vapor that falls to the ground.
What is precipitation in a water cycle?
liquid or solid water falls to the ground as rain,sleet,snow,and hail
Compare and contrast freezing rain and sleet?
Sleet falls to the ground already frozen. Freezing rain doesn't freeze until it comes in contact with grounds or power lines that are below 32 degrees.
How snow starts off as sleet?
Sleet starts as snow, then falls through a layer of the atmosphere that is above freezing whereupon it melts into rain. Finally, it falls back into colder air and refreezes as ice pellets (sleet) before reaching the ground.
After sunset the rain became sleet?
the sleet may stick to the ground or evaporates on the ground
What is moisture that falls to earth as snow rain or sleet?
The word "precipitation" covers all kinds of moisture which fall naturally on the earth (i.e. not by sprinklers, for example). Rain is the most common form of precipitation, but other forms include sleet, snow, hail and dew.
