GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -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. Rain that falls from clouds but freezes before it reaches the ground is called sleet or ice pellets.

Detailed explanation-2: -Ice Pellets (Sleet) Precipitation of transparent or translucent pellets of ice, which are round or irregular hard grains of ice consisting of frozen raindrops, or largely melted then refrozen snowflakes.

Detailed explanation-3: -Sleet is a type of solid precipitation that occurs during winter weather.

Detailed explanation-4: -Sleet is a regionally variant term for some meteorological phenomena: Ice pellets, pellets of ice composed of frozen raindrops or refrozen melted snowflakes (United States) Rain and snow mixed, snow that partially melts as it falls (United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, and most Commonwealth countries)

Detailed explanation-5: -Forms of precipitation include rain, snow, sleet and hail. Fog is not precipitation, Was this answer helpful?