Did you know lightning causes thunder?!One single bolt of lightning heats the air around it to 30,000 degrees celsius!And when the air around the bolt heats up it expands really fast.The expansion makes a shock wave that turns into a huge sound wave...therefore making the sound we know as thunder.
Lightning on the other hand is formed when hot air meets cold air.When they meet the warm air moves ontop of the cold air. The cold air has ice crystals. The warm air has water droplets. During the storm, the droplets and crystals bump together and move apart in the air. This rubbing makes static electrical charges in the clouds.Like a battery the cloud has a positive and negative end.The negative side goes towards the ground because it is attracted to the opposite charge.The cloud releases its energy by letting out a bolt of electric charge in form of a lightning strike!!
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/k-4/home/F_What_Causes_Lightning_Flash.html http://www.moonraker.com.au/
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/Atmosphere/tstorm/lightning.html
Lightning on the other hand is formed when hot air meets cold air.When they meet the warm air moves ontop of the cold air. The cold air has ice crystals. The warm air has water droplets. During the storm, the droplets and crystals bump together and move apart in the air. This rubbing makes static electrical charges in the clouds.Like a battery the cloud has a positive and negative end.The negative side goes towards the ground because it is attracted to the opposite charge.The cloud releases its energy by letting out a bolt of electric charge in form of a lightning strike!!
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/k-4/home/F_What_Causes_Lightning_Flash.html http://www.moonraker.com.au/
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/Atmosphere/tstorm/lightning.html
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