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Activity 2.6 Sequencing

1. Warm and cold air masses come together high in the atmosphere, causing movement and friction that builds up an electric charge in clouds. 2. The built-up electric charge explodes as lightning, heating the air and causing thunder through expanding air pressure waves. 3. Both light and sound travel through air, but light is faster, so lightning is seen before the resulting thunder is heard.

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Activity 2.6 Sequencing

1. Warm and cold air masses come together high in the atmosphere, causing movement and friction that builds up an electric charge in clouds. 2. The built-up electric charge explodes as lightning, heating the air and causing thunder through expanding air pressure waves. 3. Both light and sound travel through air, but light is faster, so lightning is seen before the resulting thunder is heard.

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ACTIVITY 2.

6 SEQUENCING

Sequencing is putting things in order, from first to last.

Read about lightning and thunder, paying attention to the sequence of events, from first to last.

Lightning and Thunder

Long ago, people made up myths and legends to explain what causes lightning and thunder.
Having an explanation for something can make it less frightening. Lightning and thunder can be very
frightening especially because they often happen just before a big rainstorm.
We now know what causes lightning and thunder. Have you ever noticed that you often hear
thunder just a few seconds after you see lightning? This is because it is lightning that
causes thunder. If the storm is far away from you, there are a few seconds between the lightning and
the thunder. If the storm is close to you, you hear the thunder almost at the same time that you see
the lightning.
Lightning is caused by electricity building up inside a cloud. When a large mass of warm air and a
large mass of cold air come together high above the earth, it causes a lot of movement in the air. The
cold air moves down while the warm air moves up, which creates something like friction. An electric
charge builds up in the clouds. The charge gets stronger and stronger until it explodes—and the
LIGHTNING flashes.
When the lightning flashes, the air around it becomes unbelievably hot—five times hotter than
the surface of the sun!The heated air expands into the cooler air around it, causing the shock wave
that we call thunder.
Even though we usually see lightning before we hear the thunder that it causes, the two events
happen just a fraction of a second apart. In addition, both light and sound travel through the air in
waves. However, light waves travel faster than sound waves, so the light waves from the explosion
get to us first.
A tiny version of an event similar to lightning and thunder can happen when you brush your feet
along a carpet and then touch a doorknob. You can sometimes hear the little sizzle of mini-thunder,
and see the flash of mini-lightning.

1. Write the numbers 1 through 6 in the boxes beside the events to show the sequence of what
happens to cause lightning and thunder, from first to last.

2. What is something else that can cause a flash of electricity?


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What Causes Snow?

We know that it is not just the cold that causes it to snow. There are many cold wintery days
without snow. And sometimes even when the temperature is below freezing we have rain instead of
snow. So what causes snow?
Snow starts the same way that rainstorms start. A large mass of warm air and a large mass of
cold air come together high above the earth. Sometimes the warm air is stronger, and it pushes the
cold air up. Then we have warmer weather on the ground. Other times the cold air is stronger and it
pushes the
warm air up. Then we have colder weather on the ground. And when that happens, the clouds in the
warm air get colder and colder as they are pushed higher and higher. This causes something very
interesting to happen.
Clouds are made when water vapor in the air is warmed. As it cools, the water vapor changes
into droplets of water so tiny that they are invisible, but we can easily see the cloud that they form.
In warm air, when enough of these tiny droplets collect in a cloud they gather into larger drops that
are heavy enough to fall as rain. But when a warm cloud gets pushed up into very cold air, the water
vapor changes directly into ice,instead of changing into water first. (The opposite process would be
heating an ice cube so hot and fast that it turned into water vapor without turning into water first!)
When enough of these tiny pieces of ice are formed, they gather into the form of snowflakes that
become heavy enough to fall to the ground.
If the air under the snow cloud is cold enough, the snowflakes fall all the way to the ground. If
the air is both cold and dry, the snowflakes fall as the small powdery flakes that don’t stick together.
If the air is cold and damp, the snowflakes begin to melt around the edges and stick together as they
fall. These snowflakes fall to the ground as large flakes that stick together easily, and are ideal for
making a snowman!

1. Write the numbers 1 through 6 in the boxes beside the events to show the sequence of what
happens to cause snow, from first to last.

2. What happens when the air that the snowflakes fall through is warm
enough to turn ice into water?
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