Jelani and Mikah are watching an approaching storm from their living room window. All of a sudden, they see a bright flash of lightning that is soon followed by a clap of thunder. What causes lightning? Describe each step involved in the forming of lightning, and give an example of a similar process from everyday life.
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Answer:
Zap! You just touched a metal doorknob after shuffling your rubber-soled feet across the carpet. Yipes! You've been struck by lightning! Well, not really, but it's the same idea.
Your rubber-soled shoes picked up stray electrons from the carpet. Those electrons built up on your shoes giving them a static charge. (Static means not moving.) Static charges are always "looking" for the first opportunity to "escape," or discharge. Your contact with a metal doorknob—or car handle or anything that conducts electricity—presents that opportunity and the excess electrons jump at the chance.
What causes lightning?
So, do thunderclouds have rubber shoes? Not exactly, but there is a lot of shuffling going on inside the cloud.
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causes of lightning
Explanation:due to collision if opposite of charges the lightning is produced and since later the sound is herd because the speed of light is more than sound we see it first & then hear it