• Question: what causing lightening??????

    Asked by zafei001 to Ben, Jony, Katharine, Mark on 23 Nov 2011.
    • Photo: Mark Basham

      Mark Basham answered on 23 Nov 2011:

      Hi zafei001,

      I seem to remember its something to do with static electricity build up in clouds, which then earths to the ground.

      check out the wikipedia page for more info 🙂
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning

    • Photo: Jony Hudson

      Jony Hudson answered on 23 Nov 2011:

      Nobody knows exactly, but people think that it’s the clouds rubbing together.

      It’s just like when you rub you feet on a dry carpet, or a balloon on your hair: it builds up static electricity.

      So as the clouds rub together they build up more an more static electricity until … zap!

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