Answer the following Questions Briefly:

Write short notes on:

a. Drizzle

b. Rain

c. Sleet

d. Snow

e. Heat

a. Drizzle

These are uniform minute droplets of water with a diameter of less than 0.5 mm. it is light rainfall just like a thin stream of water. Drizzles combine with fog reduces visibility.

b. Rain

It is the most common and important form of precipitation

in the places having a temperature above the freezing point It occurs only when there is abundant moisture in the air. The diameter of a raindrop is more than 5mm.

c. Sleet

It is the form of precipitation which contains some ice. It occurs when the snow starts melting. It is a mixture of snow and ice. Generally, the transparent ice pellets have a diameter of 5mm or 0.2 inches or less and that form as a result of the freezing of raindrops.

d. Snow

Snow is formed when condensation occurs below the freezing point. It is falling of frozen water or ice crystals on the surface of the earth and thus forming a white layer. Snow forms when tiny ice crystals stick together to become snowflakes.

e. Heat is a form of energy which makes the object hot. The temperature of the object to which the heat is supplied increases with an increase in heat energy. It becomes hot or warm. It is thus the flow of energy from one hotter object to the other cooler object.