A quick quiz on Ligntning based on the book entitled Lightning by Peter Murray.
Thunder
Electrons
Lightning
Electricity
Atoms
Protons
Sparks
Electrons
True
False
True
False
True
False
A sudden, violent movement of electrons
A giant electric spark
One of nature's most powerful forces.
All of the above.
True
False
When the natural electricity in the cloud is out of balance.
Ice crystals ad water droplets swirl around each other, water droplets are blown up to the top of the cloud where it is very cold and create hailstones. The hailstones fall and crash into each other and creates a negative electrical charge. The top cloud, the smaller ice crystals are left with a positive electrical charge.
The negatively charged electrons in the bottom of the cloud are pulled toward the positively charged particles in the top of the cloud.
All of the above.
156 million
156 quintillion
156 billion
None of the above
True
False
Under a tree
Inside a car
Inside a building
Both B and C
When a netrual electrical charge builds up on the ground it makes the electrons in the thundercloud discharge into the sun.
When a negative electrical charge builds up on the ground it makes the electrons in the thundercloud discharge into the earth.
When a positive electrical charge builds up on the ground it makes the electrons in the thundercloud discharge into the earth.
True
False
A jagged bar of light. It flashes for a long time and then it is gone.
A jagged bar of light. It flashes for a second and then it is gone.
A thin stream of electrons, as big around as a piece of string, shoots down from the clouds.
Both A and C.
Both B and C.
Step Ladder
Stepped Leader
Step Down
Step up
Upward Bound
Upward steam
Downward Steamer
Upward Streamer
Lightning Channel
Thunder and Lightning Channel
Thunder Channel.
Thousands and thousands
Millions and millions
Billions and billions
The sudden heat of the lightning makes the moist air rotate fast.
Both C and D.
The explosion from sudden heat.
The sudden heat of the lightning makes the moist air explode outward.
60 seconds
5 seconds
1 minute
Heat Lightning
Ribbon Lightning
Ball Lightning
Heat Lightning
Ribbon Lightning
Ball Lightning
Ribbon Lightning
Ball Lightning
Heat Lightning
Glass crystals
Fulgurites
Sand Crystals
It keeps the Earth's electrical field in balance.
It produces ozone gas.
It helps to clean our air.
All of the above.
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