Sun
Sun-2
Sun-3
Sun-4
Sun-5
100
Hydrogen
What is the sun mostly made up of?
100
Core
What is the part of the sun are thermonuclear reactions believe to occur?
100
Photosphere
What is the visible surface of the sun?
100
Chromosphere
What is the lower layer of the sun's atmosphere?
100
Heating of homes and businesses
What is the main use of solar energy?
200
Plasma
What is the state of matter on the sun's surface?
200
Greater light
What does the scriptures call the sun?
200
Sunspots
What is the dark areas on the surface of the sun?
200
Spicules
What is the pointed jets on the chromosphere?
200
Neutrinos
What is a small percentage of the sun's energy in the form of neutral subatomic particles are called?
300
Granules
What is the seething convective cells on the sun's surface?
300
Prominences
What is the streams of plasma material that rise up into and descend from the sun's corona?
300
Penumbra
What is the outer portion of a sunspot?
300
Corona
What is the outer region of the sun's atmosphere?
300
Diffraction grating
What is used in spectroscopes to produce a spectrum much like that produced by a prism?
400
Chromosphere
What is part of the solar atmosphere?
400
Convective zone
What is the zone on the sun where hot plasma rises to the surface cools, descends into the sun's interior again?
400
Umbra
What is the darker inner portion of a sunspot?
400
Radiative Zone
What is the region within the sun in which energy travels primairly as electrmagnetic waves?
400
11
What is the average number of sunspots that occur?
500
Much higher temperature
What is the temperature of the corona compared to the photosphere?
500
Radiative zone
What is the region within the sun in which energy travels primarily as electromagnetic waves?
500
Solar Flare
What is a particularly violent event also known as a coronal mass ejection?
500
Solar flares
What is severe solar storms that can disrupt telecommunications on Earth called?
500
Protons and electrons
What is solar wind composed of?
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