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Miscellaneous·Easy

Consider the following statements: 1. The release of moisture, after the condensation of water vapour, is known as precipitation. 2. Precipitation may take place only in liquid form. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Consider the following statements:

1. The release of moisture, after the condensation of water vapour, is known as precipitation.

2. Precipitation may take place only in liquid form.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Options

  1. a.

    1 only

    Correct answer
  2. b.

    2 only

  3. c.

    Both 1 and 2

  4. d.

    Neither 1 nor 2

Explanation

  • The process of continuous condensation in free air helps the condensed particles to grow in size. When the resistance of the air fails to hold them against the force of gravity, they fall on to the Earth’s surface. So, after the condensation of water vapour, the release of moisture is known as precipitation. This may take place in liquid or solid form.
  • Sleet is frozen raindrops and refrozen melted snow-water. When a layer of air, with the temperature above freezing point, overlies a sub-freezing layer near the ground, precipitation takes place in the form of sleet.
  • Raindrops, which leave the warmer air, encounter the colder air below. As a result, they solidify and reach the ground as small pellets of ice not bigger than the raindrops from which they are formed. Sometimes, drops of rain, after being released by the clouds, become solidified into small rounded solid pieces of ice and which reach the surface of the earth are called hailstones. These are formed by the rainwater passing through the colder layers. Hailstones have several concentric layers of ice one over the other.

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