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What is the name for water turning into water vapour? What is the name for water turning from a gas into a liquid? What is the name for rainfall, sleet, hail and snow?
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1 - The colder air mass is more dense than the warmer air mass, so carries on pushing forward along the ground. 2 - The warmer air mass is lighter than the colder one so is forced to rise over the advancing cold air mass. 3 - As the air is forced to rise, it cools and water vapour in the air condenses to form clouds. 4 - Further forcing of the air (now with clouds) upwards causes precipitation to occur.
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1. 2. 3. 4. What is a front? How is frontal rain caused? Name the three types of rainfall? Yorkshire is often in a rain shadow. What does this mean? 5. What direction does most of Britains rain come from? 6. Explain why we can say all rainfall is formed in the same way but have three different types of rainfall?
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7. Explain how Relief rain is formed? 8. Why does convectional rain often happen in summer? 9. Explain how convectional rain is formed? 10. At what height do clouds begin to form in this type of rainfall? 11. How high can these clouds go up to in the atmosphere?