The reason for this is that light travels faster than sound. The speed of light is 300,000Km per second.  on the contrary, sound is slow and covers only about 330m in one second, I.e.,one kilometre in 3 seconds. If we count the seconds till we hear  the thuder of the seeing the flash of lightning in the sky and divide th…

Accumulation of moisture in the atmosphere causes a thunderstorm. This accursed mostly in summer when the sun is hot and keeps soaking up water from the ground and water bodies. The most air rises and form small clouds that pile up gradually to from huge cauliflower shaped clouds as high as 10Km.lnside the clouds, large water drops …

Unlike climate, weather depends on the seasons and can also change anytime. Meteorologists predict in the evening how the weather will be the next day. The weather is driven by the sun, which heats up the ground and the weather surface. Evaporated water creates clouds from which thunderstorms bbuild up,and the ensuing bursts of thun…

There have been many ice ages  in the entire history of the Earth 🌎. During these cold phases, the average temperature of the Earth dropped 5°C below the normal level and the polar regions were completely covered with ice 🧊. The last big cold period, known as 'ice age ',ended around 10,000years ago, with the thawing of the…

'El Nino ', which means 'the christ child 'in Spanish, refers to disturbance in the ocean current, which runs off the coast of Peru 🇵🇪and which accurs every 3-8years around Christmas. When distributed, the cold Humboldt current, which flows along the western coast of South America towards the north, is puhsed back …

Mountains ⛰are formed in two ways. When the tectonic plates move, they collid against each other. When the heavy oceanic part of plate collides with the continental part, it submarges below it. The Andes,for instance, were formed in this way. The other way is when two continents collide with each other, the plates bend a…

No,since its origin about 4.8billion years ago, our planet has undergone a lot of changes. The initial ball of fire 🔥cooled down and the surface slowly turned solid. Today, we know that the earth's crust is divided into several plates, which move continuously. Entire continents have been displaced and mountains, is…

Gravity is the force of the earth that attracts every object towards it self. From our perspective this force always acts down words.For a long time people did not believe that the earth is round because then the people 'underneath 'the sphere would have actually fallen down. In 1687,a physicist, IsaacNewton, proved that the…