What are the similarities of thunder and lightning?

Answer 1

No, the two are quite different. The main difference is lightning is light, thunder is sound. Lightning is an electric charge that can come from a cloud for various reasons. Thunder is the sound made by lightning. Since sound travels slower than light, lightning comes first, thunder second.

Answer 2

"Thunder is noise. Lightning is a bolt of electricity coming down from the sky. You always see lightning before you hear thunder because light travels faster than sound." You can get hit by lightning but not by thunder. Lightning hits the ground but thunder does not.

Answer 3

Lightning is the discharge that you would see, it would make a loud sound. That sound would be called Thunder, that is what you would hear after a certain amount of time, that depends on how far the Lightning would be in Miles.

After you see the Lightning you can count every second that goes by until you hear the Thunder. Every second that you count would be 0.2 miles. That means every 5 seconds would be 1 mile.

Answer 4

lightening is lightening and thunder is the sound it makes as it cuts through the atmosphere.

Answer 5

No. Lightning is a large discharge of static electricity.

A thunderstorm is a rain storm that produces thunder and lightning.

Answer 6

they are the same kind of light as lighting form light.they both cause same amount of energy

Answer 7

Thunder makes really loud sounds and lightning just comes with a flash... usually after there is a lighting flash, there is a boom of thunder right after

Answer 8

They aren't the same. Lightning is a stream of accelerated electrons, and thunder is a sound. Thunder is caused by lightning but they are not the same.