Task Card Three

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Question: What goes on in a thunderstorm?

Question: What creates the brilliant flashes of light during a thunderstorm?

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Question: What is the lowest mile per hour speed of a hurricane?

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Question 1: Little streamers come down from the cloud and up from the ground. If two of these streamers should meet, you get a current of electricity and you have lightning. These little rivers of electricity are brighter than ten million one-hundred watt light bulbs. They travel at a speed of SIXTY MILES PER SECOND!

Question 2: Scientists believe that ice particles in the clouds grind together forming an electric charge at the bottom of the cloud. An opposite charge builds up on the ground right below the cloud. One way you can tell there is going to be a thunderstorm is that your hair stands on end because of the electrical charge on the ground.

Question 3: Seventy-four miles per hour.