Energy
The distance from the crest of one wave to the crest of the next
What is wavelength?
The sun is composed mostly of this element
What is hydrogen?
The visible surface of the sun
What is the photosphere?
The outer region of the sun's atmosphere
What is the corona?
Semiconductor devices used the produce electricity from sunlight
What are photovoltaic (PV) cells?
This electromagnetic radiation has the shortest wavelength
What are x-rays?
The sun's surface exists in this state of matter
What is plasma?
Seething convective cells on the sun's surface
What are granules?
The pointed jets on the chromosphere
What are spicules?
The main use of solar energy at this time
These waves from the sun cause sunburn
What are ultraviolet waves?
This tool fingerprints the light coming from stars
What is the spectroscope?
The two parts of a sunspot
What is the umbra and penumbra?
This instrument must be used to produce an artificial solar eclipse to study the sun's atmosphere
What is the coronagraph?
PV cells are made of these types of materials to respond to the light
What are semiconductor materials?
This is the electromagnetic radiation that the human eye is most sensitive to
What is orange/yellow light?
This type of grating used in spectroscopes produces a spectrum much like that produced by a prism
What is diffraction grating?
The region within the sun in which energy slowly travels primarily as electromagnetic waves
What is the radiative zone?
This is the hottest part of the sun
What is the corona?
PV cells produce this amount of voltage
What is 1.5 V?
A small percentage of the sun's energy is in the form of these neutral subatomic particles
What are neutrinos?
This event in nature demonstrates that sunlight is composed of wavelengths in the visible spectrum
What is a rainbow?
A particularly violent event also known as a coronal mass ejection
What is a solar flare?
Solar wind is composed mainly of these two high-speed particles
What are electrons and protons?
A term to describe how the sun's energy is not concentrated
What is diffuse?
The sun loses this amount of matter every second
What is 6 million tons of matter?
This element was discovered in the sun before it was found on earth
What is helium?
Where hot plasma rises to the surface, cools, then descends into the sun's interior again
What is the convective zone?
The layer of ionized particles in the earth's atmosphere caused by the solar wind
What is the ionosphere?
The Bible reference that shows that harnessing solar energy is a God given command
What is Genesis 1:26-28 (the Creation Mandate)?