What are the different types of snow crystals?

Answer 1

Simple Prisms

A hexagonal prism is the most basic snow crystal geometry (see the Snowflake Primer). Depending on how fast the different facets grow, snow crystal prisms can appear as thin hexagonal plates, slender hexagonal columns (shaped a lot like wooden pencils), or anything in between. Simple prisms are usually so small they can barely be seen with the naked eye.

Answer 2

Simple Prisms, Stellar Plates, Sectored Plates, Stellar Dendrites, Fernlike Stellar Dendrites, Hollow Columns, Needles, Capped Columns, Double Plates, Split Plates and Stars, Triangular Crystals, 12-Sided Snowflakes, Bullet Rosettes, Radiating Dendrites, Rimed Crystals, Irregular Crystals

Answer 3

There isn't a lot of agreement about which are the basic types. There are as many as 41 morphological types of snowflakes. But at least one website names these seven basic groups of Snowflake Classification:

Columns

Plates

Needles

Stellar Crystals

Irregular Crystals

Graupel

Ice pellets

hail

Rime

Common shapes of snowflakes include: Needles, Sectored Plates, Hollow Columns, Dendrites, Fernlike Stellar Dendrites, Hexagonal Plates, Triangular Crystals, and many, many more.

Answer 4

There are five types of snow crystals. The first type are called needles, the second type are hollow columns, the third type of snow crystal are the stars, the fourth type of snow crystal are the sector plates, and the fifth are the dendrites.

Answer 5

There are many types of snow crystals, including simple prisms, stellar dendrites with intricate branching patterns, sectored plates with radial features, and capped columns with end-plates. Each type forms under specific temperature and humidity conditions in the atmosphere, resulting in different shapes and structures.

Answer 6

there are: simple prisms, stellar dendrites, stellar plates, fernlike stellar dendrites, and needles.

Answer 7

Theres white snow, white snow and white snow