What’s the difference between ice and snow? Aren’t they both frozen water?
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All snow is ice but not all ice is snow.
If you just talk about “ice” to a random person with no further context, they’ll probably imagine a huge solid chunk of the stuff. Snow is ultimately made of the same stuff, but the chunks it comes in are very small. A pile of these tiny chunks behaves considerably different from one large solid chunk, which is why the “pile of tiny chunks” version gets its own speciel name.
The difference between snow and “ice” is basically the same difference between sand and “rocks”. Sand is ultimately just a bunch of tiny rocks, but if you said “rocks” to someone in casual conversation, sand is probably not going to come to mind.
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