
and Mrs. Hornung for teaching me about precipitation
and helping me learn new things every day.
This book was created and published on StoryJumper™
©2014 StoryJumper, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Table of Contents
Pages 4-5 Introduction
Pages 6-7 Snow
Pages 8-9 Rain
Pages 10-11 Sleet
Pages 12-13 Hail
Pages 14-15 Conclusion
Pages 15-16 Glossary


Introduction
Precipitation is any form of water that
falls to Earth's surface from the
atmosphere. There are 4 main forms of
precipitation: snow, rain, sleet, and hail.
Precipitation occurs when air from the
ocean rises, cools to its dew point and
then condenses. When condensation
occurs, clouds form, and when those clouds
get heavy enough, precipitation falls out to
the ground.


Introduction
Atmosphere
Dew Point
Condensation





Snow

Temperatures in the top layers of clouds are usually
very cold; below freezing. Ice crystals along with
droplets are in these clouds. Snow forms when these
ice crystals collide. When parts of these droplets begin
to evaporate, the rest of it becomes deposited on the
ice crystals. They begin to get heavy and eventually
fall. As they fall, they capture smaller ice crystals and
water droplets, which helps it increase in size. As they
latch onto other ice crystals, snowflakes form. Snow is
brought by nimbostratus clouds.



Snow





Vocab
Nimbostratus
Clouds
Evaporate


Rain
Rain is one of the most common types of
precipitation. In clouds, tiny droplets are formed
from condensation, and they get bigger and
bigger when they too combine with other droplets.
Droplets can have a wide variety of sizes based on
how long they are in that cloud, and some even
shrink through evaporation. As these raindrops
fall, the bigger ones fall faster and combine with
the smaller ones (think of watching rain on your
window), while other droplets just bounce off the
bigger ones. Rain is also brought by nimbostratus
clouds.


Rain




Vocab
Condensation
Evaporation
Nimbostratus
Clouds


Sleet
Sleet is clear ice particles that form
when raindrops freeze before they can
reach the ground. This happens when
rain falls into a layer of cold air in the
atmosphere, and the raindrops become
supercooled, and if they freeze, then
they hit the ground as sleet.
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and Mrs. Hornung for teaching me about precipitation
and helping me learn new things every day.
This book was created and published on StoryJumper™
©2014 StoryJumper, Inc. All rights reserved.
Publish your own children's book:
www.storyjumper.com








Table of Contents
Pages 4-5 Introduction
Pages 6-7 Snow
Pages 8-9 Rain
Pages 10-11 Sleet
Pages 12-13 Hail
Pages 14-15 Conclusion
Pages 15-16 Glossary


Introduction
Precipitation is any form of water that
falls to Earth's surface from the
atmosphere. There are 4 main forms of
precipitation: snow, rain, sleet, and hail.
Precipitation occurs when air from the
ocean rises, cools to its dew point and
then condenses. When condensation
occurs, clouds form, and when those clouds
get heavy enough, precipitation falls out to
the ground.
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