Describe the formation of a thunderstorm. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate vocabulary words. No word will beused twice:Lift Coalesce Cool Moisture Precipitation WarmerUpdrafts Downdrafts Condenses Latent Convection CellIn order for a thunderstorm to form, there must be abundant____________________ in the lower atmosphere, amechanism to ____________________ the air, and the portion of the atmosphere through which the cloud grows mustbe ____________________. Air can only rise if it is ____________________ than the air around it. During the first stageof thunderstorm development, air rises vertically creating ____________________. Moisture ____________________into cloud droplets, releasing ____________________ heat. Those cloud droplets ____________________ andeventually form precipitation. During the mature stage, ____________________ falls and cools the air around it. Cool airsinks creating ____________________. Updrafts and downdrafts form a ____________________. During the final stage,downdrafts eventually ____________________ the area where the warm air was fueling the storm. Updrafts stop, andthe storm rains out the rest of its precipitation.
