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Precipitation is the generic term for rain or snow.

1. Rain could soak into the ground.

2. Rain could run off into streams or rivers.

3. Snow could accumulate.

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What are three things that can happen to the precipitation that falls to the Earth?

It can puddle, get absorbed into the earth as groundwater, get used by plants, or runoff.


What is precipitation and what causes precipitation to occur?

What causes precipitation is rain,snow,and hall. The reason why these things cause precipitation is because they are all made out of liquad.{Water} The rain,snow and hall willfall into a lake,ocean,pond,river, and stream. Since they fall into these objects and they are made out of water there are now apart of the storage system.Precipitation is the storage part from the water cycle. The sun heat's turns water into gas..evaoration.When it comes from plants in is called... transipitation.The vapor forms clouds which is called...condensation. Hey Precipitation!!!!


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Snow, rain and its frozen form, hail, are the names you seek. There is a fourth kind of precipitation called virga, which is rain precipitated from a cloud, but which fails to reach the ground.


Why is dew not considered precipitation?

In meteorology, the word "precipitate" means to fall from the air. As the fog particles do not fall form the air and collect on the ground there is precipitate and therefore no precipitation. Think of fog as low cloud, not all clouds produce rain and therefore the cloud itself is not precipitating and neither is fog.


What two things can happen to water as it hits the ground?

When water hits the ground, it can either infiltrate into the soil to become groundwater or run off as surface water into rivers and streams. These processes are influenced by factors like soil composition, slope of the land, and intensity of rainfall.

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