Earth's Magnetic Field
Internal Layers of the Sun
External Layers of the Sun
Sun Dynamics
Solar Disturbances
100
Convection, radiation and core
What are the three internal layers from outside to the inside of the sun.
100
photosphere, chromosphere, corona
What is the outer layers of the sun from surface outward.
100
11 years
What is the average length of time for 1/2 of the solar cycle?
100
a large loop of gas contained by an electromagnetic field
What is a prominence?
200
It protects the Earth's surface from the solar wind.
What does the Earth's magnetic field do?
200
Radiation
What is the name of the layer that begins to move the energy away from the core?
200
layer of the sun's atmosphere that appears as a pinkish ring outside the visible disk of the sun during a total solar eclipse.
What is the chromosphere?
200
The temperature of a star is 3000 Celsius + 273 = 3273 Kelvin
What is the temperature of a star of 3000 Celsius in Kelvin?
200
coronal mass ejections
What are the most eruptive events on the sun?
300
Convection
What is the layer where gases cool and sink?
300
visible surface of the sun
What is the photosphere?
300
Are places where hot gasses move upward in the center, cool and move downward.
What are granules?
300
sunspots
What are the cooler darker regions on the suns surface that reflects a build up of the magnetic field in the sun?
400
These are caused by electric charges in motion.
What are magnetic fields.
400
core
What is the name of the layer where energy is created?
400
the part of the solar atmosphere we see during a solar eclipse
What is the corona?
400
state of matter consisting of electrons and ionized atoms
What is plasma?
400
jets of gas surging out of the photosphere
What are spicules?
500
This theory states that the molten iron out core combined with the planets rotation create Earth's magnetic field.
What is the dynamo theory
500
hydrogen + hydrogen = helium + energy
What is the reaction that occurs in core?
500
The outside of a granule is darker because it is cool
Why is the outside of a granule darker?
500
thermonuclear fusion in the core.
What is the energy source for the sun?
500
When the force outward from the core of fusion is balanced with the gravitational pull inward from the outer layers of the sun.
What is hydrostatic equilibrium?
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