TREASURE HUNT

 

 

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Answers:

1. Water condensed from atmospheric vapor and falling drops.

  1. Mist, drizzle, and rain
  2. Rainfall is measured in terms of inches or millimeter depth, by means of a simple receptacle-and-gauge apparatus or by more complex electrical or weighing devices placed where eddies of air will not interfere with the normal fall of the raindrops.
  3. Because they are wet! Tropical rainforests are defined by their wet and dry seasons.
  4. Raindrops form when millions of tiny droplets collide together in clouds to form larger ones. Eventually, they become too heavy and fall out of the clouds as rain.
  5. Native Americans
  6. Instantaneous rainfall rate, a parameter related to the mean drop diameter, and a shape factor.
  7. Without water, life as we know it would cease to exist.
  8. NEXRAD makes assumptions about the number and kind of raindrops it detects.
  9. 400 millimeters per hour- 100 millimeters