Question

List the ways in which lightning can be produced

Answer 1

Lightning is an electric current. Within a thundercloud way up in the sky, many small bits of ice (frozen raindrops) bump into each other as they move around in the air. All of those collisions create an electric charge. After a while, the whole cloud fills up with electrical charges. The positive charges or protons form at the top of the cloud and the negative charges or electrons form at the bottom of the cloud. Since opposites attract, that causes a positive charge to build up on the ground beneath the cloud. The grounds electrical charge concentrates around anything that sticks up, such as mountains, people, or single trees. The charge coming up from these points eventually connects with a charge reaching down from the clouds and - zap - lightning strikes

Answer 2

Lightning is produced by the rapid transfer of free electrons when one of the following conditions exist:

One part of a cloud is positively charged and a neighboring part of the same cloud is negatively charged.

A positively charged cloud comes near a negatively charged cloud.

A cloud with either a positive charge or a negative charge comes near the earth.