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Its raining, its pouring!

L.O. To understand and be able to explain three

different ways in which rain forms

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321 Key word that means rain, hail, sleet and

snow

Countries in the World that are very wet!

Months of the year with lots of rainfall

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Lets imagine we are a bubble of warm air. What will we want to do?

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As we rise upwards, we are going to get colder. As we get colder, the water vapour will

condense into liquid water and join up with other droplets to

form rain. What we are going to be

looking at today is the three situations in which our bubble

of air will rise.

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1. Relief Rainfall

Wind direction

Cooler air

Warmer air

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2. Convectional Rainfall

Cooler air

Ground warms up and then warms up

the air

Air Masses

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Hot Air

Cold Air

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3. Frontal Rainfall

Warm air

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Use your new knowledge to explain what type of rain we get in each of these locations and why.

The Rainforest Cantabria

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