Precipitation Tournament
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Objective
Students will judge using criteria and determine which type of precipitation wins the tournament.
Some notes on the less well-known competitors:
- Rain
- Virga - rain that evaporates before it hits earth
- Hail - is frozen to start with
- Freezing Rain - snow that melts while falling and then freezes on surfaces
- Sleet (ice pellets) - rain that freezes on the way down
- Graupel (pronounced gropple) - snow balls instead of flakes, also called "soft hail"
- Snow
- Drizzle
