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Lightning

Lightning. Power point created by Robert Martinez Primary Content Source: National Geographic Images as cited. http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/natural-disasters/lightning-profile/.

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Lightning

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  1. Lightning Power point created by Robert Martinez Primary Content Source: National Geographic Images as cited. http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/natural-disasters/lightning-profile/

  2. Cloud-to-ground lightning bolts are a common phenomenon—about 100 strike Earth’s surface every single second—yet their power is extraordinary. http://schools.sd68.bc.ca/fore/ireland/2006/jr/cloud%20to%20ground%20lightning.jpg

  3. weatherquestions.com/lightning.jpg

  4. Each bolt can contain up to one billion volts of electricity. http://www.harkphoto.com/051803lightning.jpg

  5. http://i.livescience.com/images/ig10_lightning_15_02.jpg

  6. This enormous electrical discharge is caused by an imbalance between positive and negative charges. http://www.lanl.gov/news/albums/safety/lightning_bolt.sized.jpg http://extend.schoolwires.com/clipartgallery/images/32255088.jpg

  7. http://www.earth-serpent.net/images/lightningbolt.jpg

  8. During a storm, colliding particles of rain, ice, or snow increase this imbalance and often negatively charge the lower reaches of storm clouds. http://www.flickr.com/photos/10093223@N03/4541103706/

  9. Objects on the ground, like steeples, trees, and the Earth itself, become positively charged—creating an imbalance that nature seeks to remedy by passing current between the two charges. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jaredryanlee/3637911858/

  10. http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog/images/lightning_strike.jpghttp://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog/images/lightning_strike.jpg

  11. http://www.neatorama.com/images/2006-10/lightning-bolt-hits-house.jpghttp://www.neatorama.com/images/2006-10/lightning-bolt-hits-house.jpg

  12. A step-like series of negative charges, called a stepped leader, works its way incrementally downward from the bottom of a storm cloud toward the Earth. http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluelunarrose/3010025597/ http://i.pbase.com/g6/54/14154/2/1516340.kyAR8E1g.jpg

  13. Each of these segments is about 150 feet long. http://www.just-whatever.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/lightning_strike_18.jpg

  14. When the lowermost step comes within 150 feet of a positively charged object it is met by a climbing surge of positive electricity, called a streamer, which can rise up through a building, a tree, or even a person. http://www.lightningsafety.com/nlsi_info/leader.gif

  15. The process forms a channel through which electricity is transferred as lightning. fbcoem.org http://www.flickr.com/photos/aristides2/3768393920/

  16. Some types of lightning, including the most common types, never leave the clouds but travel between differently charged areas within or between clouds http://www.flickr.com/photos/streamer_yam/4302628561/

  17. Other rare forms can be sparked by extreme forest fires, volcanic eruptions, and snowstorms. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ethanhein/2253205808/

  18. http://www.flickr.com/photos/beggarbard/2532534847/

  19. http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefnisson/4535901121/

  20. Ball lightning, a small, charged sphere that floats, glows, and bounces along oblivious to the laws of gravity or physics, still puzzle scientists. http://www.insidesmusic.com/insidesvideo/images/ball-lightning.jpg

  21. Lightning is extremely hot—a flash can heat the air around it to temperatures five times hotter than the sun’s surface. http://sunearthday.nasa.gov/2007/images/gal_012.jpg

  22. http://www.guy-sports.com/fun_pictures/lightning_capitol.jpg

  23. This heat causes surrounding air to rapidly expand and vibrate, which creates the pealing thunder we hear a short time after seeing a lightning flash. http://australiasevereweather.com/photography/photos/2008/1014jd27.jpg

  24. http://www.lightningsmiths.com/lightning_fineart02/lightning_water.jpghttp://www.lightningsmiths.com/lightning_fineart02/lightning_water.jpg

  25. Lightning is not only spectacular, it’s dangerous. About 2,000 people are killed worldwide by lightning each year. http://www.crh.noaa.gov/ilx/lightning/Ltg_deaths.jpg

  26. Hundreds more survive strikes but suffer from a variety of lasting symptoms, including memory loss, dizziness, weakness, numbness, and other life-altering ailments. This lady was burned at a rock concert at RFK stadium.

  27. http://www.flickr.com/photos/aramisfirefly/3046395599/

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