Ice does not need to melt into liquid water before it can return to the atmosphere as water vapor.

a. True

b. False

The statement is true regarding the the fact that w hen the water vapor comes out of the air, it often causes precipitation like rain and snow. First, when water vapor is cooled it transforms into tiny droplets of liquid water or ice crystals that grab onto particles of dust in the atmosphere. Tons of these little droplets or ice crystals make clouds. When you look at clouds from the ground, the tiny droplets and ice are too far away to see, but many of them together look like a cloud. If the droplets or ice crystals get large enough, they fall from the sky as rain or snow.