Answer the following questions in about 30 words.
(i) Name the three types of precipitation.
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Answer:
Five main types of precipitation are rain, snow, hail, sleet, and freezing rain.
Precipitation and it's type are given below -
Precipitation is flow of evaporated water back to earth. Water is evaporated from different sources like lakes, oceans etc.
By the precipitation, water reaches back to earth, in many forms. Those different ways of precipitation are - liquid state, snow, hails, ice pellets, drizzle etc.
Precipitation can occur in three ways namely, convective, stratiform and orographic precipitation.
Convective precipitation occurs from cumulus and cumulonimbus clouds while stratiform precipitation occurs from nimbostratus clouds.
Orographic precipitation occurs when orographic clouds formation takes place.
The phenomenon happens when moist air rises and cools thus forming clouds hence precipitation.