Vocab
An enormous ball of really hot gas, the center of our solar system
What is The Sun?
The visible surface of the Sun.
What is the Photosphere?
These are natural light displays seen in high latitude regions which consist of an emission of a complexity of light in various colors.
What are Auroras?
Without this from the Sun, we could not exist.
What is energy?
Earth's atmosphere is made of 78% of this gas.
What is Nitrogen?
A hot ionized gas
What is plasma?
The outermost layer of the solar atmosphere which consists of a highly rarefied gas with a temperature greater than one million kelvin.
What is the Corona?
These are very dangerous to spacecraft and astronauts because it releases large amounts of radiation.
What are Solar Flares?
The Sun contains more than 99.85% of the total this of the solar system
What is Mass?
The first military governor of Florida and the namesake for Jacksonville.
Who is General Andrew Jackson?
A natural light display seen in high latitude regions on Earth such as the Arctic and Antarctic.
What are Auroras?
The temperature of this layer is estimated to be about 15.7 million kelvin. This layer is made up of two sub-layers.
What is the Core?
The most noticeable effect of this on our climate are the northern and southern lights.
What are Sunspots?
Most of the atoms that make up the Sun exist as this
What is Plasma?
This gas is often referred to as laughing gas
What is Nitrous Oxide?
These are interruptions in the Sun’s magnetic energy.
What are Solar Flares?
The radiation from the core travel in zig-zag motions through this “zone” due to the very high density of the Sun’s interior.
What is the Radiative Zone?
Distorts Earth's magnetic field, which then in turn, disrupts navigation systems, cause surges in electrical systems causing damage and blackouts, and damages or disrupts satellites.
What are Solar Prominences?
This force from the Sun holds the solar system together
What is Gravity?
This small ball, used in sports, commonly has 336 dimples on the surface.
What is a Golf Ball?
Occur when plasma flows along a loop from sunspot to sunspot.
What are Solar Prominences?
In this layer it actually gets hotter if you go further away from the Sun, unlike in the lower layers, where it gets hotter if you go closer to the center of the Sun.
What is the Chromosphere?
Distorts Earth's magnetic field, which then in turn, disrupts navigation systems, cause surges in electrical systems causing damage and blackouts, and damages or disrupts satellites.
What are Solar Winds?
Earth would be the size of this if the Sun were the size of a front door
What is a Nickel?
The national animal of this country is the unicorn
What is Scotland?