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Lightning can’t strike
TRUE or
FALSE?
the same place twice

This may strike you as strange,

but lightning often strikes twice.
Tall targets, such as skyscrapers and

trees, can be struck up to 100 times
a year. American park ranger Roy
Sullivan also felt the full force

of nature, being hit seven times. Each flash of
His stroke of luck was surviving! forked lightning
can reach up
to 6 miles (9 km)
from the cloud
to the ground.
RETHINKING RAINDROPS

The usual depiction of a raindrop
is a classic tear shape. But small
raindrops are spherical, while larger
ones are more roll-shaped. As
raindrops fall, they are flattened
from below by air resistance. If this
force exceeds the attraction of the
water molecules for each other, the
raindrop will split into smaller ones.

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