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WorksheetsConvection and relief rainfall
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
What is the name for the tiny particles in the atmosphere around which condensation happens?
Condensation nuclei
Condensation particles
Condensation atoms
Relief rainfall occurs when air moves towards a mountain and is forced to do what?
Rise over it
Go through it
Go under it
The correct geographical term for any water falling from the sky is...
precipitation
accumulation
condensation
transpiration
Which type of rainfall is seen in the image?
precipitation
relief
frontal
convectional
Fact or Fiction?
The images illustrates convectional rainfall?
True dat
False as
Condensation occurs at
saturation point temperature
dew point temperature
cooling point temperature
vapour point temperature
Which type of rainfall is most likely to be found in tropical regions close to the equator?
Convectional
Relief
Frontal
As air rises it cools by how much?
1 oC for every 100m
1 oC for every 1km
0.6 oC for every 100m
0.6 oC for every 1km
Condensation occurs when the temperatures reduce so that water can no longer be held in vapour form. The water condenses around condensation nuclei. When will it rain?
straight away
in the afternoon
when the droplets coalesce and become too heavy
when the air temperature drops below freezing
With our prevailing wind from the West, what is the main reason Wales receives so much rain?
relief rainfall
convection rainfall
the jet stream
Rain only forms when the air is rising. this gives what pressure at the earth's surface?
Low
High
moderate
