What is lightning?

Lightning is a bright flash of electricity produced by a thunderstorm also known

as a cumulonimbus cloud. All thunderstorms produce lightning and are very dangerous

What causes lightning?

Lightning is an electric current. Within a thundercloud way up in the sky, many
small bits of ice or frozen raindrops bump into each other as they move around the air. All those
collisions create an electric charge. After a while, the whole cloud fills up with positive charges or
protons from top of the cloud and negative charge 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 connects with a charge reaching down from the clouds and zap lightning strikes!

What causes thunder?

Thunder is caused by lightning. When lightning bolt travels from the cloud to the
ground it actually opens up a little hole in the air, called a channel. Once then, light is gone the air
collapses back in and creates a sound wave that we hear as thunder. The reason we see lightning before
we hear thunder is because light travels faster than sound.

What is a rainbow?
A rainbow is a meteorological phenomenon that is caused by reflection,
refraction, and dispersion of light in water droplets resulting in a spectrum of light appearing in the sky. It
takes the form of a multicolored circular arch. Rainbows caused by sunlight always appear in the section
of sky directly opposite to the sun. Rainbows can be full circle. However, the observer normally sees only
an arch formed by illuminated droplets above the ground and centered on a line from the sun to the
observer’s eye.

WHAT MAKES A RED SUNSET?

Within the visible range of light red light waves are scattered the least by
atmospheric gas molecules. So at sunrise and sunset, when the sunlight travels a long path through the
atmosphere to reach our eyes, the blue light has been mostly removed. Leaving mostly red and yellow
light remaining.

Why is the sky blue?

Sunlight reaches the Earth’s atmosphere and is scattered in all directions by all
gases and particles in the air. Blue light is scattered more than the other colors because it travels as
shorter, smaller waves. This is why we see a blue sky most of the time.

What causes echo?

Echo is a sound or series of sound by the reflection of sound waves from a
surface back to the listener.