Multiple choice

Precipitation consisting of a mixture of snow and rain.

  1. Ablation

  2. Sleet

  3. Cliff

  4. Pampero

  5. Moraines
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Explanation

Sleet is frozen precipitation consisting of small ice pellets formed when raindrops fall through a cold layer of air and freeze before reaching the ground. It's different from snow (which forms directly as ice crystals) and freezing rain (which freezes on contact with surfaces). Ablation is ice loss, cliffs are landforms, pampero is a wind, and moraines are glacial deposits.

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