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Lightning forms when charges drop to the lower parts of a cloud and charges build up on the ground below?
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lightning forms when negative charges drop to the lower parts of a cloud and positive charges build up on the ground below.
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Lightning forms when negative charges drop to the lower parts of a cloud and positive charges build up on the ground below?
yes
Where do charges build up to make lightning possible?
In clouds
Why do you have lightning?
Lightning is a sudden discharge of electrons from clouds to the ground. When storm clouds gather up lots of electrons, which are negative, the electrons are attracted to the ground's positive charge (opposites attract). The cloud's electrons build up so much that they leap to the ground in one stream, causing visible lightning.
Why there is a lightning?
Lightning is a sudden discharge of electrons from clouds to the ground. When storm clouds gather up lots of electrons, which are negative, the electrons are attracted to the ground's positive charge (opposites attract). The cloud's electrons build up so much that they leap to the ground in one stream, causing visible lightning.
What do you call a lightning bolt coming from the ground?
Lightning is an electric current. Within a thundercloud way up in the sky, many small bits of ice (frozen raindrops) bump into each other as they move around in the air. All of those collisions create an electric charge. After a while, the whole cloud fills up with electrical charges. The positive charges or protons form at the top of the cloud and the negative charges or electrons form at the bottom of the cloud. Since opposites attract, that causes a positive charge to build up on the ground beneath the cloud. The grounds electrical charge concentrates around anything that sticks up, such as mountains, people, or single trees. The charge coming up from these points eventually connects with a charge reaching down from the clouds and hit the highest point. There isn't any lightning that originates from the ground.
Lightning forms when negative charges drop to the lower parts of a cloud and positive charges build up on the ground below?
yes
Where do charges build up to make lightning possible?
In clouds
What occurs when positive and negative electrical charges build up in the cloud?
Lightning
Build up of electric charges?
It is called static.
What occurs when positive and negative electrical charges build up in clouds?
Lightning
When opposite electrical charges build up in very tall clouds what is produced?
Lightning
How does a lightning bolt form?
Lightning is caused by electric charges releasing energy. When the denser (positive charges) go to the top of the cloud, the less dense (negative charges) go to the bottom. This creates an electric imbalance of charges. In the ground, the negative charges are pushed away because the positive charges are attracted to the negative charges at the bottom of the cloud. If an object is in the way the lightning does what it has to to get to the ground, so it will get there faster. When the lightning is discharged you only glimpse it for a second until it disappears. It can travel 75 m/sec, so even though it creates light it is a release of energy so it doesn't travel at the speed of light.By Brian Hanglightning is not necessarily formed but is just a large build up of static electricity between a point on the ground and the storm cloud. Its when these plus and minus charges come together to form a lightning strike.Lightning is basically static electricity between the cloud and the ground. The cloud has too much of one charge (normally negative), while the ground has too much of the opposite charge (normally positive). The lightning bolt is the name of the electrical discharge between the two objects. It can also be between cloud-tree, cloud-car, or even (ouch!) cloud-human.Electricity in the air.
How does lightning strike a soccer field?
Although an elevated, conductive object is more likely to draw a lightning strike, these discharges can strike open ground or in fact anything that provides a grounding point. Lightning can even (though very rarely) pass through buildings with open windows, in one and out the other, along a path of ionization. Cloud-to-ground lightning is a discharge of electrical potential by highly-charged air in a cloud. As a cloud moves across the surface of the Earth, negative charges build up in the cloud bottoms and a corresponding positive charge accumulates below it on the ground. Wherever these are connected by a path of ionized air, the lightning will discharge (actually in both directions, down and up).
What is lightning and what causes the lightning?
Lightning is a sudden discharge of electrons from clouds to the ground. When storm clouds gather up lots of electrons, which are negative, the electrons are attracted to the ground's positive charge (opposites attract). The cloud's electrons build up so much that they leap to the ground in one stream, causing visible lightning.
Why do you have lightning?
Lightning is a sudden discharge of electrons from clouds to the ground. When storm clouds gather up lots of electrons, which are negative, the electrons are attracted to the ground's positive charge (opposites attract). The cloud's electrons build up so much that they leap to the ground in one stream, causing visible lightning.
Why there is a lightning?
Lightning is a sudden discharge of electrons from clouds to the ground. When storm clouds gather up lots of electrons, which are negative, the electrons are attracted to the ground's positive charge (opposites attract). The cloud's electrons build up so much that they leap to the ground in one stream, causing visible lightning.
When do you get lightning?
Lightning is a sudden discharge of electrons from clouds to the ground. When storm clouds gather up lots of electrons, which are negative, the electrons are attracted to the ground's positive charge (opposites attract). The cloud's electrons build up so much that they leap to the ground in one stream, causing visible lightning.
