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Lightning |
Meaning: lightning is a
display of electrical energy in the atmosphere.
Fast Facts:
- in Australia between 5 and 10
people are killed by lightning strikes each year, over 100 are
injured
- a storm with lightning is
called an electrical storm
- it is cause by air friction
within clouds
- it normally strikes the
highest object in the vicinity
- thunder is the sound made when
the hot air produced by lightning collides with the cool air
around it
- as light travels much faster
than sound people see the flash and then hear the thunder
- some types are: ball, forked,
peal necklace, ribbon, rocket, sheet and streak
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