AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The most common types of precipitation are rain, hail, and snow. Rain is precipitation that falls to the surface of the Earth as water droplets.

Detailed explanation-2: -Precipitation (Water Falling from the Sky) There are many different types of precipitation-rain, snow, hail, and sleet for example-yet they all have a few things in common. They all come from clouds. They are all forms of water that fall from the sky.

Detailed explanation-3: -There are four main forms of precipitation: rain, snow, sleet and hail.

Detailed explanation-4: -The main types of precipitation include drizzle, rain, sleet, snow, ice pellets, graupel, and hail. Precipitation happens when water vapour (reaching 100 percent relative humidity) saturates a portion of the atmosphere so that the water condenses and ‘precipitates’ or falls.