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.
Encomienda, in colonial Spanish America, legal system by which the Spanish crown attempted to define the status of the Indian population in its American colonies. It was based upon the practice of exacting tribute from Muslims and Jews during the Reconquista (âReconquestâ) of Muslim Spain.