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If updrafts in a cloud are very strong, what effect can they have on precipitation?

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Correct answer: They can keep droplets and ice particles aloft longer and make them grow

Correct answer: A. A strong updraft is a rising current of air inside a cloud. It can oppose gravity and keep supercooled droplets, ice particles, or water-coated particles suspended for a longer time. During this longer residence time, collisions, freezing, melting, and collection can make the particles larger. If they become heavy enough, they fall as rain, snow, or hail. In very powerful convective clouds, repeated lifting and growth may support hail formation. B is wrong because an updraft does not instantly remove every droplet. C is scientifically meaningless: water vapour does not become soil. D is wrong because rising moist air commonly supports cooling and condensation rather than stopping it. Memory cue: “Strong lift gives particles more time to grow,” but it does not guarantee heavy rain in every cloud.

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UpdraftParticle GrowthHailConvective CloudsClouds And PrecipitationWater In The AtmosphereGeographyClass 12 Mcq

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