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Did you know that machines are not the only generators of electricity? Nature is also a great source of natural electricity, and in this book, you will find out how that happens. How does nature create electricity and in what forms? You’ll be surprised to find out that you actually see some of these sources regularly. Open this book today!
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15 juin 2017

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9781541919549

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English

NATURE IS A POWERHOUSE of ELECTRICITY!
PHYSICS BOOKS FOR KIDS
CHILDREN’S PHYSICS BOOKS



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All Rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or used in any way or form or by any means whether electronic or mechanical, this means that you cannot record or photocopy any material ideas or tips that are provided in this book.





I n this book, we’re going to talk about electricity in nature. So, let’s get right to it!








Y ou walked across the carpet in your house during the winter, and then you touched a doorknob. Ouch! That hurt! You just got stung by a little bit of static electricity. We’ve harnessed electricity to run our manmade power lines, appliances, and electric motors, but electricity exists on and around Earth in lots of natural forms.


















T here’s nowhere you could go to hide from electricity. It’s inside your body, inside the bodies of other animals, and you can see powerful displays of it every time there’s a thunderstorm.










LIGHTNING
P erhaps the most dramatic display of natural electricity is lightning. Lightning is basically a very powerful current of electricity. As thunderclouds form in the atmosphere, small particles of ice that are like frozen raindrops start bumping into each other as they’re moving in the air. All this activity creates a charge of electricity. After a period of time, the entire cloud or group of clouds is filled with charges of electricity.













T his is happening at the atomic level and the positive charges, which are protons, gather at the top of the thundercloud. The negative charges gather in the bottom portion of the cloud. Since

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