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Sublimation is when snow goes directly into a gaseous state.

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Q: What is it called when ice and snow turn directly into water vapor?
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What is it called when water changes from a solid directly to a gas?

Water vapor that changes in to an ice crystal is called deposition. This what happens in the formation of snow.


When water vapor freezes directly into ice crystals what is formed?

It becomes snow.


What is created when water vapor in a cloud is turned directly into crystals?

Snow


What forms when air temperature is below freezing and water vapor changes directly to solid?

snow


Form of precipitation which shows water vapor condenses directly into crystal?

Snow.


What do you call a melting ice that undergoes the type of change?

Snow and ice can turn directly into water vapor in a process called sublimation.


What do you called the hot gas or water vapor?

The process of water turning into gas (water vapor) is called evaporation.Heating water into water vapor is called boiling. High-temperature water vapor is called steam.The water has become water vapor.


When do snow crystals form?

Snow crystals form when water vapor condenses directly into ice. This happens in the clouds.


What type of precipitation is formed when water vapor changes directly into a solid?

snow or hail


What type of precipitation occurs when water vapor turns directly into solid crystals?

Snow


When does ice change directly into water vapour?

Sublimation is most often used to describe the process of snow and ice changing into water vapor in the air without first melting into water. The opposite of sublimation is "deposition", where water vapor changes directly into ice-such a snowflakes and frost.


When can ice and snow sublimate directly into water vapor and go directly into the atmosphere and does this happen in Antarctica?

No. The temperatures in this polar desert do not support liquid water.