Three Types Of Rain Flashcards

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Relief rainfall

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  • wind is moving air
  • wind meets line of hills or mountains
  • the wind is forces to go up, air cools and we get rain
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Conventional Rainfall

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-the sun heats the ground
-the ground heats the air above it
-rises as currents of warm air
-these are called convection currents
-the air cools and water vapour condenses
-clouds form,we get rain
…so conventional rainfall

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Frontal rainfall

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  • huge blocks of air mass move around the earth
  • when warm air mass meets a cold one, warm air is forced to rise
  • so we get rain, frontal rainfall
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