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a mass of water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the air
a) cloud
b) dew
c) frost
d) hail

small particles of material such as salt or smoke around which tiny water droplets form
a) condensation nuclei
b) precipitation
c) hail
d) sleet

to change water vapor into a liquid
a) condense
b) evaporate
c) freeze
d) melt

water on a surface produced by condensation when the cooler surface cools a nearby film of air to below the dew point
a) dew
b) frost
c) drizzle
d) relative humidity

the temperature at which air, by cooling, becomes saturated with vapor and begins to condense
a) dew point
b) relative humidity
c) condensation nuclei
d) precipitation

small droplets of rain falling slowly
a) drizzle
b) freezing rain
c) frost
d) dew

to change a liquid into a vapor without boiling
a) evaporate
b) freeze
c) melt
d) condense

to change a liquid into a vapor by heating (boiling)
a) vaporize
b) melt
c) freeze
d) condense

to change state from a liquid to a solid
a) freeze
b) melt
c) evaporate
d) condense

supercooled water that falls as rain and then freezes on the surface it contacts
a) freezing rain
b) hail
c) sleet
d) drizzle

ice crystals formed on a surface when the cooler surface cools a nearby film of air to a below-freezing dew point
a) frost
b) dew
c) hail
d) snow

ice pellets produced when strong updrafts carry raindrops to elevations cold enough to freeze them
a) hail
b) sleet
c) frost
d) snow

to change from the solid to liquid state
a) melt
b) freeze
c) condense
d) evaporate

any form of moisture falling from the atmosphere
a) precipitation
b) relative humidity
c) cloud
d) condensation nuclei

precipitation that falls as liquid
a) rain
b) snow
c) hail
d) dew

the percentage of water the air is holding compared to the amount that it could hold at a given temperature
a) relative humidity
b) precipitation
c) condensation nuclei
d) dew point

small, rounded ice pellets that form when rain falls through a layer of cold air
a) sleet
b) drizzle
c) hail
d) freezing rain

ice crystals formed in clouds when water vapor sublimates to become solid
a) snow
b) sleet
c) hail
d) freezing rain

to change from the solid state directly to the vapor state or from a vapor to a solid without an intermediate liquid state
a) sublimate
b) vaporize
c) condense
d) freeze

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