Downdrafts & Lightning Quiz

When lightning strikes you should do:

• Drop to your knees, bend forward, and put your hands on your knees.

• Lie down on wet ground.

• Panic

When lightning strikes you should not:

• Stay calm

• Go inside a house, large building, or get into a car.

• Go near ANYTHING metal, such as a fence, pipes, railroads, or T.V. antenna.

When lightning strikes you should not:

• Go under a large tree that stands alone.

• Go inside a house, large building, or get into a car.

• Drop to your knees, bend forward, and put your hands on your knees.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

When lightning strikes you should:

• Go near or inside of a lake, an ocean, or any other water.

• Go inside a house, large building, or get into a car.

• Stand on a hiltop or fish from a boat.

The first step of thunder comes _________.

• 100 million volts build up in the lower part of a thunderhead and the temperature reaches 50,000 degrees F.

• thunder is the sound given off by the explosive expansion of air heated by a lightning stroke.

• as a thunderstorm develops, the clouds become charged with electricity.

• lightning flashes when the voltage becomes high enough for electricity to leap across the air from one place to another.

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS3-5

NGSS.MS-PS4-2

The second step of thunder comes _________.

• 100 million volts build up in the lower part of a thunderhead and the temperature reaches 50,000 degrees F.

• thunder is the sound given off by the explosive expansion of air heated by a lightning stroke.

• as a thunderstorm develops, the clouds become charged with electricity.

• lightning flashes when the voltage becomes high enough for electricity to leap across the air from one place to another.l

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS3-5

NGSS.MS-PS4-2

The third step of thunder comes _________.

• 100 million volts build up in the lower part of a thunderhead and the temperature reaches 50,000 degrees F.

• thunder is the sound given off by the explosive expansion of air heated by a lightning stroke.

• as a thunderstorm develops, the clouds become charged with electricity.

• lightning flashes when the voltage becomes high enough for electricity to leap across the air from one place to another.

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS3-5

The fourth step of thunder comes _________.

• 100 million volts build up in the lower part of a thunderhead and the temperature reaches 50,000 degrees F.

• thunder is the sound given off by the explosive expansion of air heated by a lightning stroke.

• as a thunderstorm develops, the clouds become charged with electricity.

• lightning flashes when the voltage becomes high enough for electricity to leap across the air from one place to another.l

5 x ___= 250

• 20

• 30

• 40

• 50

Mrs. Bautista will be at Galileo tomorrow?

• TRUE

• FALSE