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Balance in Sun
Fusion
Interior of the Sun
Atmosphere of the Sun
Magnetic Field of the Sun
100
Hydrostatic Equilibrium means these two things are in balance.
What are outward pressure and inward force of gravity?
100
Another name for fusion
What is hydrogen burning or the proton-proton chain?
100

The process that moves energy through the interior of the sun using light.

What is radiative transfer?

100
The layer of the sun that is considered to be its "surface".
What is the photosphere?
100
Charged particles flowing away from the sun.
What is the solar wind?
200
This is what happens to density, temperature and pressure as you go deeper into the Sun.
What is increase?
200
For fusion to occur, this force must be overcome by the strong nuclear force.
What is the repulsive electrical force?
200

The zone of the sun where energy is moved by the rising and falling of hot and cool gas.

What is the convective zone?

200
The layer of the sun's atmosphere that emits a red emission-line spectrum.
What is the Chromosphere?
200
The reason the sun is active.
What is the sun's magnetic field?
300
This is equal to the rate energy is lost from the surface of the sun.
What is the rate energy is made in the core?
300
Why high temperatures are needed for fusion.
What are high speeds to ram protons together?
300

The inner part of the sun that makes up most of the sun's interior.

What is the radiative zone?

300
The hottest layer of the Sun's atmosphere
What is the corona?
300
Cooler places on the photosphere that emit less light than the rest of the sun.
What are sunspots?
400
What would happen if pressure in the sun was greater than the force of gravity.
What is the explosion of the Sun?
400
According to Einstein, the source of the sun's energy.
What is mass? (small leftover mass from turning 4 H into 1 He)
400
The process by which energy is slowed down as it travels from the core to the surface of the sun.
What is the absorption and reemission of photons.
400
The type of spectrum produced when light from the sun passed through the photosphere.
What is an absorption spectrum?
400
The 11-year period between the changing of the North and South poles of the magnetic field that affects the number of sunspots.
What is the sunspot cycle?
500
By studying this, we learn about fusion in the sun.
What are neutrinos emitted during fusion in the core of the sun?
500
When energy is moved by light (photons) from hotter to cooler regions.
What is radiative transfer?
500
Negative results of Coronal Mass Ejections (bursts of energetic particles from the sun).
What are downed power grids and satellites?