The sun
Interior
Exterior
Features
Misc.
100
SOL means
What is the sun?
100
Where nuclear fusion takes place
What is in the core?
100
visible surface of the sun
What is the photosphere?
100
Loops of gass that link sunspot regions.
What are prominences?
100
Distance from the Earth to the Sun
What is 93 million miles?
200
Term that describes a sun centered universe
What is heliocentric?
200
The sun's inner most interior layer
What is the core?
200
Reddish glow visible during a solar eclipse
What is the chromosphere?
200
sreams of gases that jetison out into space
What are solar flares?
200
Speed of light?
What is 186,000 MPS?
300
The sun's mass is _______________of all mass in the universe
What is 99%?
300
The middle layer of the sun's interor
What is the radiation zone?
300
The halo or crown of the sun
What is the corona?
300
otherwise know as the northern lights
What are auroras?
300
The age of the sun
What is 4.5 to 5 billion years old
400
These hold the sun in place
What are gravity and atmospheric pressure?
400
The outside layer of the sun's interior
What is the convection zone?
400
areas of lower temperature on the sun's surface
What are sunspots?
400
The typical length of time between solar minimum and solar maximum
What is 11 years?
400
A million of these occur on the sun;s surface every second
What are nuclear explosions?
500
Core temp of the sun
What is 27 million degrees F
500
The process whereby hygrogen atoms fuse to form helium
What is nuclear fusion?
500
Streams of electrically charged particles
What are solar winds?
500
What is a CME?
What is a coronal mass ejection?
500
The term that describes the rotation of the sun at varying rates
What is differential rotation?
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