TREASURE HUNT

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Answers:
1. Water condensed from atmospheric vapor and falling drops.
- Mist, drizzle, and rain
- 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.
- Because they are wet! Tropical rainforests are defined by their wet and dry seasons.
- 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.
- Native Americans
- Instantaneous rainfall rate, a parameter related to the mean drop diameter, and a shape factor.
- Without water, life as we know it would cease to exist.
- NEXRAD makes assumptions about the number and kind of raindrops it detects.
- 400 millimeters per hour- 100 millimeters