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Understanding Precipitation: Types and Measurement for Spring

Dive into the fascinating world of precipitation as we celebrate the first day of spring during the Vernal Equinox. Explore various forms of precipitation, including rain, snow, sleet, and hail. Learn how rain gauges measure rainfall and discover the importance of clouds such as cumulus and cumulonimbus in weather patterns. This worksheet will help you understand the science of precipitation with vocabulary definitions and colorful diagrams. Get creative using cotton balls to illustrate clouds and deepen your understanding of this essential meteorological phenomenon.

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Understanding Precipitation: Types and Measurement for Spring

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  1. Put your Worksheet on the box Precipitation 3/20/14 16-1c pgs. 428-429 • IN: Scientifically, what is important about today?

  2. It is the first day of Spring!Vernal Equinox

  3. Precipitation Water, in solid or liquid form, that falls from the air to the Earth.

  4. Rain The most common form of precipitation, is liquid water that falls from the clouds to Earth’s surface.

  5. Snow Snow forms when temperatures are so cold that water vapor changes directly to a solid.

  6. Sleet Also called freezing rain, forms when rain falls through a layer of freezing air.

  7. Hail Solid precipitation that fall as balls or lumps of ice.

  8. Measuring Precipitation Rain gauge - an instrument used to measure the amount of rainfall.

  9. Front • Precipitation • Rain • Snow • Sleet • Hail • Back • Clouds • Cumulus • Cumulonimbus • Stratus • Cirrus • All vocabulary words must have a definition and a diagram with color. • Use the cotton balls to create your clouds. • You only get 2 cotton balls. • Pages 426-429.

  10. OUT: How can rain and hail fall from the same cumulonimbus cloud?

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