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ATSC 110 Precipitation Test Questions and Answers All Correct What processes does supercooled water play a role in? - Answer- Aggregation Hail Accretion Freezing Rain What determines hail size? - Answer- Updraft What determines whether precipitation is sleet or freezing rain? - Answe...

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ATSC 110 Precipitation Test Questions
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What processes does supercooled water play a role in? - Answer- Aggregation
Hail
Accretion
Freezing Rain

What determines hail size? - Answer- Updraft

What determines whether precipitation is sleet or freezing rain? - Answer- Height of the
freezing level - a shallow freezing level indicated freezing rain and a deep/high level
indicates sleet

What does most rain begin as? - Answer- snow

What kind of precipitation can cumulonimbus clouds produce? - Answer- Snow
Rain
Freezing Rain
Hail

What affects snowflake shape? - Answer- Temperature and supersaturation

How are dendrites formed? - Answer- Greatest difference between supersaturation and
temperatures

How does rain form? - Answer- water vapor melts as it falls

How does sleet form? - Answer- water vapor melts as it falls before falling through a
deep freezing layer and refreezing

How does hail form? - Answer- Large updrafts that force water droplets to rise and grow
through accretion before falling

How does snow form? - Answer- frozen water vapor that does not heat enough to melt

How does freezing rain form? - Answer- supercooled water that freezes on contact w/ a
surface below freezing

What precipitation only occurs in cumulonimbus clouds? - Answer- Hail
What is aggregation? - Answer- merging of ice particles

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