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What is the main charging area in a thunderstorm?
What is the main charging area in a thunderstorm?
- Middle of the thunderstorm cloud with super-cooled cloud droplets
- Central part of the storm with rapid upward air movement (correct)
- Top of the storm cloud where graupel is suspended
- Lower part of the storm where ice crystals collide
What causes ice crystals to become positively charged?
What causes ice crystals to become positively charged?
- Rapid downward air movement
- Contact with super-cooled cloud droplets
- Collisions with graupel (correct)
- Temperature increase
What happens to the graupel in the thunderstorm cloud?
What happens to the graupel in the thunderstorm cloud?
- It evaporates into super-cooled cloud droplets
- It melts due to high temperatures
- It rises to the top of the storm cloud
- It is either suspended in the middle of the thunderstorm cloud or falls toward the lower part of the storm (correct)
What is the temperature range in the main charging area of a thunderstorm?
What is the temperature range in the main charging area of a thunderstorm?
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What carries the positively charged ice crystals upward in a thunderstorm?
What carries the positively charged ice crystals upward in a thunderstorm?
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