Question

Lightening is a _____________ phenomenon
(A) Electromagnetic
(B) Current electricity
(C) Electrochemical
(D) Electrostatic

Answer 1

Hint: We know that lightning happens when the negative charges (electrons) in the bottom of the cloud are attracted to the positive charges (protons) in the ground. There are three primary types of lightning which include: cloud-to-ground (the most commonly known type), cloud-to-air, and cloud-to-cloud. With cloud-to-ground lightning, the rapid discharge of lightning is a channel of negative charge that is attracted to the positively charged ground.

Complete step by step answer
We know that electrical phenomena are commonplace and unusual events that can be observed and that illuminate the principles of the physics of electricity and are explained by them. Electrical phenomena are a somewhat arbitrary division of electromagnetic. Lightning’s abrupt electric discharge is accompanied by the emission of light.
Lightning is an electrical discharge caused by imbalances between storm clouds and the ground, or within the clouds themselves. Most lightning occurs within the clouds. 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.
Lightning is a sudden electrostatic discharge during an electrical storm between electrically charged regions of a cloud, between that cloud and another cloud, or between a cloud and the ground.

So, the correct answer is option D.

Note It is said that lightning is an electric current. Within a thundercloud way up in the sky, many small bits of ice (frozen raindrops) bump into each other as they move around in the air. All of those collisions create an electric charge. After a while, the whole cloud fills up with electrical charges. Lightning is a giant spark of electricity in the atmosphere between clouds, the air, or the ground. When the opposite charges build up enough, this insulating capacity of the air brakes down and there is a rapid discharge of electricity that we know as lightning.