Lightning strikes
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What is lightning?
Lightning is an electric charge.
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Do lightning strikes go to opposite charges, same charges or both?
Lightning strikes go to opposite charges.
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Do you see lightning before you hear the thunder or do you hear the thunder before you see the lightning and why?
You see lightning before you hear the thunder because the lightning is faster than the speed of sound which is the thunder.
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What type of clouds typically form lightning strikes?

Cumulonimbus clouds form lightning strikes.

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When does the lightning strike?
Lightning leaves the cloud when enough negative charges build up in the cloud.
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What type of electricity or charge is similar to a lightning strike?
A static electric charge.
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Do the lightning strikes go to other clouds, to the ground, or both?
Lightning strikes can go to both other clouds and to the ground, so both.
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The warm air has water droplets, the cold air has ice crystals. How do these cause electric charges?

The water and ice bump into each other and create an electric charge.

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How are the clouds that create lightning formed?



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Cold air meets warm air and the warm air rises. This then creates the clouds.

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How hot are lightning strikes?


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They can be 28,000 degrees celsius or 48,632 degrees fahrenheit.  
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Where are the positive and negative charges in the cloud?

The positive charges are at the top of the cloud. The negative charges are at the bottom of the cloud.

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How high can the lightning strikes go?
A lightning strike can be more than 10 miles high in the troposphere and the stratosphere.
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When do you see a lightning strike
You only see lightning when it shoots back up.
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How are the static electric charges caused?
Water droplets from the warm air and ice crystals from the cool air bump together and creates a static electric charge.
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What is the study of lightning called?


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The study of lightning is called fulminology
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