Precipitation

Focus topics

 
• Precipitation Processes
• Precipitation Types

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Key Terms

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Check for Comprehension
 

1.  Do you understand the mechanisms by which cloud droplets grow large?

2.  Can you identify the various precipitation types?

3.  Can you associate various cloud types with different types of precipitation?
 

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Questions for Review

1. Whis the primary difference between a cloud droplet and a raindrop?

2.  Why do typical cloud droplets seldom reach the ground as rain?

3.  Why do heavy showers usually fall from cumuliform clouds? Why does steady precipitation normally fall from statiform clouds?

4.  How do the atmospheric conditions that produce hail differ from those that produce sleet?

5.  Ice crystals that form by accretion are fairly large. Explain why they they fall slowly.

6.  What is the difference between snow flurries and a snow squall?

7.  Everyday in summer a blizzard occurs over the Great Plains. Explain where and why.

8.  Why is hail more common in the summer than in winter?
 

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Quiz

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