Describe the formation of a thunderstorm. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate vocabulary words. No word will be  used twice: Lift...

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.