Question

A spark of lightning occurs when negative charges jump from one charged cloud to another.
A. True
B. False

Answer 1

Hint:Lightning is an electric discharge induced by imbalances between the clouds of hurricanes and the earth or between the clouds themselves. This discharge causes charged regions in the atmosphere to briefly equalise themselves, as they hit an entity on the ground. Inside the sky, much lightning happens. Lightning can occur within the thunderstorm cloud between opposite charges or between opposite charges in the cloud and on the ground.

Complete answer:
Lightning is a current in energy. A cloud is required to create this electric current. It heats the air above it while the earth is wet. This air of warmth grows. Water vapour cools and forms a fog as the air grows. The cloud becomes larger and larger as the air begins to climb. The temperature is below zero at the top of the atmosphere, and the water vapour turns into frost.

The storm is now turning into a thundercloud. When they pass about, tonnes of little pieces of ice bump against each other. Any of these collisions cause an electrical charge build-up.The whole cloud gradually fills up with electrical charges. At the top of the cloud, smaller, positively charged particles form. Towards the bottom of the cloud, heavier, negatively charged particles sink.

A giant flash - lightning - happens between the two charges inside the cloud as the positive and negative charges become large enough. This is like the flashes of static electricity we see, but much larger.

Hence, option A is true.

Note:Lightning is literally a collection of immense electric sparks. A giant spark, a lightning flash, occurs as a huge volume of static energy piles up in a storm cloud. Lightning can jump from one part of the cloud to another, or it can jump from one part of the cloud to another.