EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Precipitation forms in the clouds when water vapor condenses into bigger and bigger droplets of water. When the drops are heavy enough, they fall to the earth. If a cloud is colder, like it would be at higher altitudes, the water droplets may freeze to form ice.

Detailed explanation-2: -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. Raindrops form around microscopic cloud condensation nuclei, such as a particle of dust or a molecule of pollution.

Detailed explanation-3: -Precipitation takes one of two paths once on the ground. It runs over the surface into rivers, lakes or the ocean, and becomes surface water, or it soaks into the earth and becomes groundwater.

Detailed explanation-4: -Precipitation forms when cloud droplets or ice particles in clouds grow and combine to become so large that the updrafts (e.g. upward moving air) in the clouds can no longer support them, and they fall to the ground.

Detailed explanation-5: -Precipitation is water released from clouds in the form of rain, freezing rain, sleet, snow, or hail. It is the primary connection in the water cycle that provides for the delivery of atmospheric water to the Earth. Most precipitation falls as rain.