Layers
The Sun
Diagram of the Sun
Energy of the sun
Vocabulary
100
This layer of the sun is where hydrogen fuses into helium.
What is the core?
100
The word "solar" refers to this object.
What is the "sun"?
100
The core.
What layer 6 pointing towards?
100
This forms when a proton combines with a neutron to form a heavy from of hydrogen
What is deuterium?
100
The process in which two low mass atomic nuclei fuse to form another, heavier nucleus
What is nuclear fusion?
200
The layer that is the middle layer of the sun’s atmosphere and is pinkish in color
What is the chromosphere?
200
The sun is a big fiery ball of gas called this.
What is a "star"?
200
The photosphere
What is number 2 pointing towards?
200
Gamma rays are released along with other energy
What occurs when Helium 3 is produced?
200
These are cooler regions of the sun when hot, convecting gasses are prevented from reaching the sun's surface
What are sunspots?
300
The layer of the sun’s atmosphere that is the visible surface of the sun
What is the photosphere?
300
It occurs in 11 year cycles
What is period of activity of sun spots?
300

Solar Flares

What is number 1 pointing towards?

300
The particles involved in nuclear fusion
What are protons and Neutrons in hydrogen?
300
An explosive release of energy that extends outward as far as the sun's atmosphere
What is a solar flare?
400
The layer where energy is released as radiation, absorbed and then re-emitted by particles
What is the radiative zone?
400
These are a variety of eruptions of mass and energy from the solar surface.
What is a solar storm?
400

The corona

What is the layer only seen during a solar eclipse ?

400

This causes the auroras 

What happens when the magnetosphere is bent by a solar flare (CME)?

400
The latin stem photo
What means light in Latin?
500
The rotation of the sun in which different parts of the sun have different periods of rotation
What is differential rotation?
500

It was the worst recorded solar storm to hit Earth

What is significant about the year 1859?

500
Photosphere.
What is number 7 pointing towards?
500
The crushing force of Gravity.
What causes hydrogen to fuse and form helium?
500
The latin stem Coron
What Latin word means crown in English?
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