Types of rainfall

Rainfall is caused by

• water vapour rising

• Water vapor cooling down and condensing

• Condensed water vapour falling back to the earth

• evaporation

There are _______ types of rainfall.

• 2

• 3

• 4

• 5

________ rainfall occurs mainly in the afternoon.

• convectional

• relief

• frontal

• border

Frontal rainfall occurs

• where the land meets the sea

• where the temperature is very cold

• where the temperature is very hot

• where cold and warm air meets

This type of rainfall occurs when

• hot and cold air meets

• moist air rises over a mountain

• in the afternoon

• the land meets the sea

Relief rainfall occurs

• on the windward side of a mountain

• on the leeward side of a mountain

• at the foot of a mountain

• on the peak of a mountain

Rain Forests get _________ rainfall in the afternoons.

• cyclonic

• frontal

• relief

• convectional