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