View Full Document. Ice Pellets Ice pellets (also called sleet) are refrozen snowflakes. They occur when a layer of air aloft is warm enough (> 0 ï° C) to melt snowflakes into raindrops but the air near the ground is cold enough to freeze the drops.
acarid - very small free-living arachnid that is parasitic on animals or plants; related to ticks. 1  mite - any of numerous very small to minute arachnids often infesting animals or plants or stored foods. 2  Acaridae, family Acaridae - mites.
ACOA (Adult Children of Alcoholics) Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACOA) is a recovery program for adults whose lives have been affected by being raised in an alcoholic or otherwise dysfunctional family. ACOA is an anonymous program that uses the 12 steps and 12 traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous. The purpose of ACOA meetings is to discover how childhood affected each memberâs past and influences his or her present life. The group identifies 14 traits of adult children of alcoholics termed âThe Laundry List.â