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4.26.25 - Part 1 · Children's Hour

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  Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Radioized Churn's Story Hour as a
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  reminder of radioized reading service intended for people are blinder
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  of other disabilities that make it difficult to reprint material. Today,
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  we will be reading from various books on weather. Your
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  reader today is dying. We will continue with the book
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  All about Heat Waves and Droughts, Discovering Earth's Scorching Weather
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  and It was published by Children's Press and Imprint of
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  Scholastic Incorporated It as a copyrter of twenty twenty two
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  and the author of the book is Steve Thomaschik.
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  Speaker 2: Chapter three.
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  Speaker 1: When droughts happen, different places on Earth get different amounts
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  of rain. The more precipitation a place gets, the more
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  plants animals are able to make it their home. However,
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  if drought hits scenario and lasts long enough, it can
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  cause serious problems for plants, most living there, and even
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  for people. Without a regular supply of fresh water, most
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  living things can die. Why do droughts happen? Droughts happen
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  when an area is drier than usual because it gets
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  too little rain or snow. Droughts are more common than
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  the summer, but they can happen anytime of the year.
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  Like heat waves, droughts are caused by a high pressure
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  air mass that stays over an area. This flocks new
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  air masses that would normally bring in moisture ring around
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  the drought. Take a close look at a tree stump
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  and you'll see a set of rings that start small
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  at the center and gets larger each year a tree
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  grows a new ring. During wet years, trees grow faster,
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  so the rings are thicker. During years with droughts, trees
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  grow slower, so the rings are thinner. By studying the
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  thickness of tree rings, scientists can tell when droughts happen
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  in the past. The impacts of droughts. Droughts cost many
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  problems for people and the environment. The longer they last,
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  the worse the problems become. When severe droughts happen, streams, lakes,
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  and reservoirs dry up. When reservoirs are dry, there is
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  less water for people to drink. On a farm, crops
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  and animals die if there's no water. When plants dye,
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  the roots that hold soil in place are destroyed, so
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  strong winds can blow the soil away. Droughts are dangerous
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  for another reason they often lead to wildfires. During droughts,
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  grasses and leaves on forest floors dry out and can
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  easily catch fire. All that is need is a spark
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  or a lightning strike. Wild Fires spread quickly and are
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  difficult to control. They are especially difficult to fight during
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  summer heat waves, when the air is hot and dry.
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  In recent years, hundreds of deadly wildfires have happened following
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  severe droughts. Droughts in the rainforest when rainforests has trees, loose,
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  leaves or even die. This means more sunlight gets into
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  the lower parts of the forest, making it drier than
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  it should be. A dry forest makes it hard for
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  plants and animals to survive. The Amazon Rainforest in South
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  America and the tong Gas National Forests in Alaska are
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  two rainforests that have experienced trouts. The Amazon Rainforest is
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  the largest rainforest on Earth is usually one of the
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  wettest places on the planet, but over the last thirty years,
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  there have been several major droughts in the Amazon, and
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  they have been happening more frequently. Many scientists believe that
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  people are to lame trees put a lot of water
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  vapor into the air, Unfortunately, people have been cutting down
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  trees in huge numbers in the Amazon. Fure means less
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  water vapor in the air, which leads to less rain.
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  Ton Gas National Forest is the largest temperate rainforest in
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  the world. Since twenty eighteen, it has experienced drouts, some
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  have been extreme. The droughts hurt salmon habitats, destroy trees,
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  and cause water supply problems for people who live in
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  the area. Chapter four. Keeping your cool during a heat wave.
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  It's important to stay cool and avoid going out during
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  the warmest part of the day, usually in the mid
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  to late afternoon. There are many things that you can
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  do to beat the heat and keep yourself and your
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  family and friends safe, from turning on the air conditioning
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  to drinking lots of water, staying in and slowing down.
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  If you can stay indoors in an air conditioned place
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  when it's extremely hot. If your home is not air conditioned,
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  go to a library or other public place that is cool.
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  During heat waves, many communities open cooling centers for people
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  to use. You must go outside, find a shady spot
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  or use an umbrella to block the sun. Then take
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  it slow. Why physical activity makes you hotter? Do activities
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  don't require much movement. Dressing light. Seeing out the sun
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  is not the only way to stay cool. The way
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  you dress also makes a difference. Wearing a hat protects
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  your head and face from the sun, and loose fitting
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  shorts and t shirts allow air to flow over your skin.
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  Wearing lighter color.
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  Speaker 2: Helps to white.
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  Speaker 1: Dark colors, such as navy blue and black, soak up
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  more of the sun's heat than light colors do. The
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  wonders of water, one quick way to cool off turn
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  a heat wave is to get wet. Hit the beach,
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  take a dip in a pool, or run under a sprinkler.
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  When moisture evaporates off your skin, it lowers your body temperature.
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  This is one reason we sweat. Sweating cools your skin,
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  but it also causes your body to lose a lot
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  of water when it's hot. Drink lots of liquids, including water,
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  so you don't get dehydrated.
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  Speaker 2: Turn off the tap.
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  Speaker 1: Saving water is the most important thing to do during
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  a heat wave or drought. The local news stations often
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  report on rules to follow until a heat wave or
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  drought is over. Take short showers instead of baths. Don't
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  let the water run while washing hands, or brushing teeth
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  and don't wash cars or walkways. It's also best to
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  water flowers with the watering can instead of letting a
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  hose run.
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  Speaker 2: Chapter five. What the Future hotes.
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  Speaker 1: Climate scientists collect rainfall and temperature data from around the world.
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  Speaker 2: This data is.
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  Speaker 1: Used to predict what the climate will be like in
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  the future using computer models. Many of these models show
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  that heat waves and droughts will get worse in the
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  next one hundred years because of climate change, but there
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  are some actions we can take to help change this
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  dry hot forecast. Dealing with droughts, scientists are working on
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  new technologies to less than the frequency of droughts and
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  help people deal with them when they do happen. New
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  watering systems have been developed so farmers can use less
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  water while growing the same amount of crops. Countries like
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  Saudi Arabia and Israel are using special technologies to remove
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  salt from seawater to make it fresh so that people
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  can use it slowing the heat. Carbon dioxide is one
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  of the gases in the atmosphere that increases the greenhouse effect.
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  This leads to higher temperatures on Earth. Power plants that
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  burn fossil fuels to make electricity release extra carbon dioxide
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  into the air. Greener energy sources, such as solar panels
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  and wind turbines do not release carbon dioxide. Replacing power
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  plants with greener sources of electricity can lower the amount
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  of carbon dioxide that is released and decrease the effect
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  of global warning. The power of trees. Trees are important
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  when it comes to fighting the effects of heat waves
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  and droughts. Tree roots pull water from the soil and
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  release it as water vapor in the air. More water
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  vapor means that there's better chains for rain or snow.
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  When trees grow, they make carbon dioxide out of the air.
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  Many scientists believe that planting millions of trees will help
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  reduce greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, leading to a cooler
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  planet our role in the future. Most climate scientists agree
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  that it is time to take action to keep our
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  planets safe from heat wasves, droughts, and other severe weather.
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  Many people, including kids, are already making a difference, not
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  only by saving water, but also by saving electricity, recycling,
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  and speaking up for the environment. They want to save
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  the planet. They will one day be in charge of
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  How about you mapping droughts scientists collect lots of data
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  about rainfall and droughts. Using this data, they create maps
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  that show where droughts are happening and how severe they are.
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  Story is called its Raining and it was published by
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  Holiday House and it has the copyright year of twenty
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  fourteen to twenty seventeen and it was written by Gail Gibbons.
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  Dark clouds fill the sky. Some people pull on boots
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  and put on raincoats and hands. Others pop open umbrellas.
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  It's raining. Rain is water falling from clouds. Water is
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  necessary for all plant life and animal life to survive
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  on Earth. Water vapor is made up of very tiny
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  parkles of water that we cannot see.
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  Speaker 2: When the sun shines and.
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  Speaker 1: Warms the air, water vapor rises up into the sky.
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  This is called evaporation. Condensation occurs when water vapor turns
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  into liquid droplets. As the water vapor moves higher into
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  the sky, the air becomes cooler and cooler. Water vapor
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  soon turns into millions of water droplets. This is called condensation.
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  Clouds will form when enough droplets come together. As droplets
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  join together, they become heavy enough to fall toward earth
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  as rain drops. Different kinds of rain clouds. Stratus rain
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  clouds produce drizzle or light rain and are low in
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  the sky. They are spread out across the entire sky.
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  Nimbos trust stratus clouds are dark and bring steady, heavy rain.
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  When clouds look dark to us, it is because there
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  are so many water droplets in the clouds that the
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  rays of the sun can't shine through. Cumulus rain clouds Stratus,
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  strato cumulus, and opto cumulus clouds produce drizzle or light rain.
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  They are patchy, puffy clouds low in the sky. Cu
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  milonibus rain clouds are They're dark, heavy, and piled up
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  high in the sky.
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  Speaker 2: These large clouds bring lots of rain.
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  Speaker 1: The amount of rainfall during a year varies from place
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  to place all around North America. Rain helps determine the
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  kinds of plant life in all regions of the world.
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  It also helps create the level of water in streams, rivers, lakes,
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  and oceans. When very small raindrops are falling lightly, people
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  say it's drizzling. A shower occurs when the raindrops are
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  larger than a drizzle. A shower lasts for a short
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  amount of time. Rain occurs when the rain drops are
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  large and come down steadily. A rainstorm is when there
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  are gusty winds and rain comes down for a long time.
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  A thunderstorm is when it gets dark and windy, rain
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  drops come down hard and fast. Thunderstorms can be very
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  dangerous there is thunder and lightning. Lightning is so hot
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  that the particles of water vapor in the air around
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  it expand boom. The powerful noise is called thunder. Sometimes
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  meteorologists when people of an approaching storm and possible flooding.
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  A flood can bring great danger. Flood waters can rise quickly.
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  People living near streams, rivers, and lakes are sometimes advised
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  by meteorologists and authorities to evacuate. The Meteorologists are scientists
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  who study and predict the weather. A rain gauge measures
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  the amount of rainfall. Information is downloaded by the meteurologists
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  into their computer, and a flash flood is rapid and
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  sudden fluming, usually caused by heavy rain. To evacuate means
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  to leave the area. People are told to move to
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  safer places. Some people go to shelters. A shelter is
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  a place where people go to be safe until they
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  can reach turn home. After a major rainstorm or flash
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  flood has passed there is often damaged. Clean up crews
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  get busy. They pick up damage trees and branches and
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  cut them up and take them away. Power lines are repaired.
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  Workers and volunteers come together as clean up teams. Roads
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  may be washed away, so homes and buildings and roads
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  may need repairs. When strong pollutants in the air come
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  down with the rain is called acid ring. Acid rain
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  can cause damage to trees, crops, and all living things.
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  Without clean water, plants and crops may die, People and
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  animals suffer too. Many people are looking at new forms
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  of energy, such as hydro power, wind power, and solar
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  power to help cut back on pollution. Hydro powers created
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  from movement of water, wind powers created from the movement
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  of wind, and solar power is created from the heat
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  of the sun. Sometimes while it's rain or just after
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  it rains, there is a rainbow. The order of the
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  colors of the rainbow is always the same. How does
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  stay dry outside when it rains. You can wear a jacket,
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  rain boots, a hat, poncho, umbrella, or rubber shoes. How
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  to stay safe during a thunderstorm when there's lightning. Never
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  stand nearer under a tree. The tree and its roots
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  will carry and transfer electricity that can hurt anything near them.
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  Don't swim in water out of doors. Water attracts lightning.
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  As soon as possible. To take cover inside your house
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  or a large building. How does stay safe inside during
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  a thunderstorm or a flood. Make sure you are in
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  a safe place with an adult. Bring your pets in sight.
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  Listen to weather forecasters to be on alert. Stay away
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  from windows and doors when there's light, and stay away
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  from anything that can transfer electricity, such as water faucets
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  or electrical appliances. Make sure you have fresh water, bad
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  powered radio first, AAI kit, spear batteries, nonperishable foods, and
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  a flashlight. Rain, rain, rain fog is a stress cloud
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  close to the ground. A drought happens when it hasn't
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  rained for a long time. There's no water, so plants
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  can't grow. Monsoons are extra heavy seasonal rains that fall
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  mostly in Southeast Asia.
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  Speaker 2: As much as.
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  Speaker 1: One foot or more of rain per hour can fall
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  during a monsoon. Both placed with the highest annual rainfall
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  and the place with the lowest annual rainfall around the
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  world are found in South America. Freezing rain is very
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  dangerous When warm rain drops fall and hit coat services,
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  ice forms, streets and sidewalks become slippery. Electrical wires can snap.
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  There is danger everywhere. Each rain drop is made up
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  of about a million droplets. Throughout the world, there are
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  about sixteen million thunderstorms a year. Count the seconds between
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  the flash of lightning and a clap of thunder. The
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  bigger the number, the farther away the storm is. A
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  rainbow is an arc of seven different colors. It forms
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  when sunlight shines through drops of water. Our next of
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  stories are on the subject light, and the first book
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  is called Light Is All Around Us. It was published
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  by Harper and Imprint of Harper Collins Publishers as a
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  copyright ear of twenty fourteen. It was written by Windy Peiffer.
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  Light is found in many different forms in many different places.
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  It travels from the Sun and the stars. It lights
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  up the sky, the sea, in our backyards, windows glow,
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  car light, shine, signs flash on and off. Bridge light sparkle.
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  Sometimes shagged boats of lightning fill the sky, and brightly
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  colored fireworks explode. On Fourth of July during the day,
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  like from the sun brightens our world, but the sun
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  is ninety three million miles away. How does it's light
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  get here? Light travels to earthen waves of electromagnetic radiation,
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  a kind of energy that travels through space. These waves
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  travel so fast we can't even see them move. Cars
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  on highways travel about one mile a minute. Passenger jet
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  planes travel eight miles a minute. Sound waves travel thirteen
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  miles a minute. Light travels over eleven million miles a minute.
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  Nothing travels faster than light. In addition to measuring how
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  fast light is, we can also measure it to find
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  out how bright it is. To find out how long
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  something is, we measure it in inches. To find out
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  how hot something is, we measure in degrees. We measure
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  time and minutes, and weight in pounds. Light is measured
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  in lumens. A light bulb used for reading is usually
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  one thousand and seven hundred and fifty lumens. Sunlight is
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  thirty five Octilian lumens. That's thirty five Octolian moons, more
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  than all the light bulbs on Earth turn on at
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  the same time. That's why you should never look directly
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  at the sun. It can hurt your eyes. The sun
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  sins the brightest light, but not all light comes from
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  the sun. People build fires like candles or urnal electric lights.
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  Some people use the night light in their bedroom. Sometimes
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  flashlights light the way in the dark. People in the
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  West Indies used to poke hosts and gourds, fill them
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  with fireflies and use them as flashlights at night. Just
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  as fireflies glow in the dark, some fish glow in
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  the water.
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  Speaker 2: They light up to find a mate.
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  Speaker 1: Confuse enemies, or lure food has been discovered that glows.
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  It's blue green light attracts tiny sea animals. The octopus's
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  blue green glow is a chemical light like the yellow
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  green glows six children carry on Halloween. Light is important
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  it let's just see. Close your eyes see all the
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  light can't get into your eyes. You don't see all
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  that's around you. Open your eyes. Light comes into your
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  eyes and you see the world with its beautiful colors.
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  Here's how light helps you see. When light waves hid
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  an object, they bounce off. When they bounce off, we
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  say they reflect. Reflect means that they change direction. You
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  see a cat because light waves reflect off the cat
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  to your eyes. Light waves enter your eye through the
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  pupil in the center of a colored iris. The waves
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  pass through the lens and form a picture on the
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  retina at the back of your eye. Nerves carry the
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  picture to your brain and it tells you what to
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  see day or night. Light helps us watch the world
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  and its wonders. Our next story is called Flash and
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  Gleam Light in Our World and it was published by
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  Millbrook Press and has a copyright year of twenty twenty
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  and it was written by Soue. Flies Lights, rise, open eyes, reach, low, nurture, grow, boat, flash, thunder, crash, color, bend,
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  find the end, glimmer, glow, wish and blow, blast, beam,
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  let us dream, fade away, cannot stay, swirl, flow, come
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  and go, flicker, feel, help us heal, float, guide, far
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  and wide, blink, play, show the way, shimmer, glance, blaze
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  and dance, sore weight, celebrate, spark, fly, fill the sky,
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  birds create, illuminate, blessed, shine in a line, Dads, though, thrill, spread, goodwill, gleam, bright,
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  say good night. The science of light.
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  Speaker 2: What is light?
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  Speaker 1: Light is a form of energy. We see the light
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  of different energies as different colors. Red is lower energy light,
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  and blue is a higher energy light. White light is
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  a combination of all the colors of the rainbow. When
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  white light passes through a prism, a thick piece of glass,
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  usually triangular in shape. The light is separated into its
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  individual colors and we see a rainbow. Light moves very fast.
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  It travels one hundred and eighty six thousand miles every second.
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  Our Sun is ninety three million miles away. This means
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  that it takes eight minutes for light to travel from
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  the Sun to Earth.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: The biggest source of light on our world is the Sun.
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  The Sun is a star, which is an enormous ball
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  of very hot gases. As the star uses its fuel
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  of hydrogen, it makes energy in the form of light
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  and heat. The sunlight warms the earth, creates the weather,
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  and is the key to photosynthesis, which is when plants
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  in some organisms use sunlight to grow. Let's look at
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  some other light lightning. Lightning is a powerful movement of
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  static electricity. It's a giant electrical spark caused when thunderclouds
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  separate positive and negative charges. Most lightning happens within the cloud,
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  but sometimes you can see it happening between the cloud
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  and the ground. These are called lightning strikes. Rainbows. A
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  rainbow's form when sunlight shines on tiny droplets of water
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  in the air. The water dropless act as miniature prisms,
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  separating the sunlight into colors and reflecting the light.
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  Speaker 2: Back towards you.
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  Speaker 1: The colors are always the same, but the length and
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  clarity of a rainbow depend on the size and number
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  of the water dropless in the air. The Northern lights
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  the Northern lights are natural displays of colored light auroras
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  that appear in the night sky, and they are magnificent.
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  Auroras are caused by collisions between electroical charged particles from
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  the Sun and Earth's air. The auroras that occur in
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  the northern hemisphere are called the Northern Lights. When they
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  occur in the southern hemisphere, they are called Aurora Australias.
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  Aurors take many shapes and forms, and may look like arcs,
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  shimmering waves, or bands, and they change as the light
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  moves across the sky. Fireflies Fireflies use special cells inside
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  their bellies. Oxygen and other chemicals mixed with a chemical
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  called luciferin in the cells, which creates light through a
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  chemical reaction known as bioluminocens. Fireflies talk to one another
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  with their light signals. The pattern of Lincoln can mean
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  different things, such as defending a territory or trying to
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  attract to mate moonlight. The moon is the brightest object
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  seen in the night sky. While the moon looks as
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  if it is shining, it does not produce its own
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  visible light. Rather, it reflects sunlight. Sunlight lights up half
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  of the moon. When we can see the bright side
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  of the moon, it is called a full moon. When
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  we can see half of the bright side in half
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  of the dark site, we call it a quarter moon.
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  The cycle of phases takes about a month, because that
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  is how long it takes for the moon to orbit
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  the earth. Light and celebration. The fourth of July or
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  Independs Day, is a holiday where Americans celebrate the United
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  States' independence from Great Britain. To celebrate, people set off
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  different colored fireworks. Sometimes communities help parades or picnics, and
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  there may be concerts featuring patriotic songs. Yaping is one
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  of Thailand's tacular celebrations. During the November festival, people launch
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  thousands of fire powered rice paper sky lanterns into the
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  air for good luck. The sky appears to be full
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  of floating burning stars. Dwali, or the Festival Light, is
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  a joyful Hindu holiday in October November. It's the biggest
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  holiday of the year in India and is celebrated by
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  Hindus the worldwide. This five day holiday is a celebration
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  of light over darkness and good over evil. Families set
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  clay oil lamps outside their homes to symbolize the inner
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  light that protects them from spiritual darkness. People hang strings
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  of lights outside their homes, and there are often firework
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  displays and bonfire fires. To Hanika, also called the Festival
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  of Lights, is a Jewish holiday honoring the Maccabeese victory
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  over King Entichus, who forbade Jews practice the religion. The
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  victory allowed them to take back the temple and practice
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  the religion again. During Hanukah, Jewish people like candles and
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  a minora with a helper candle called a shamish every
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  night at sundown for eight nights. The holiday celebrates the
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  power of even a small light to overcome darkness. Christmas
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  is a Christian holiday that celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ.
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  Around the world, friends and family members gather to exchange gifts,
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  sink carols, and decorate the Christmas tree and home with
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  lights during the four Sundays leading up to Christmas called
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  Edmunt and on Christmas Eve many people go to church,
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  children wait for Santa Claus to come from the north
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  poe and a sleigh to deliver gifts. This concludes our
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  Chure Story Hour for today. Please join us next time
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  as we were reading more stories, fables and fairy tales.
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  Thank you for listening and please stay tuned for the
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  late Senior Leader on RADIOI