what is the difference between ice and snow?

Question

water gets hard to become ice.
water vapour gets solid to form snow-this is what i know.

Answer 1

When a material crystallizes from liquid the external morphology of the solid depends on ambient conditions.

Snow and ice have the same crystal structure. However, snow flakes are flat with a (often stunningly beautiful) hexagonal symmetry), while ice forms a transparent solid block.

Answer 2

Densely packed material formed from snow that doesn't contain air bubbles. Depending on the snow accumulation rate, the air temperature, and the weight of the snow in the upper layers, it can take snow a few hours or a few decades to form into ice.

Know more about snow

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow

Answer 3

Ice and snow are just synonyms of each other.when water converts into solid either by artifical method or naturally is known as ice .when in atmosphere vapour converts directly into solid is known as snow.

Answer 4

Simply put frozen water is Ice.It can assume a large number of different crystalline structures such as snow flakes, hail, ice cubes, and glaciers.
Snow is a type of Ice consisting of a multitude of snowflakes that fall from clouds. A snowflake is an aggregate of ice crystals and are typically hexagonally symmetrical.

Answer 5

Snow is ice in little quantities. That is why it is so light. Essentially, if you were to shred ice well enough, you would get "snow".
Ice, is water, where, according to the particle theory, the tiny particles that are the water are placed in a matrix formation, with little movement. This makes it a solid.

Too scientific?

Answer 6

Snow Is Soft & Ice Is Hard?

Answer 7

Ice is artificial but snow is naturally occuring.

Answer 8

Snow is mostly air, not ice. That is why it is light and feels different.