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The Sun's Atmosphere
The Core
The Inner zones
Vocabulary
BONUS POINTS
100
The________has three layers.
Atmosphere
100
What is at the center of the sun?
The core.
100
the Convective zone which has a temperature of about ____ degree Celsius. A. -25 B. 1,000,000 C. 100
B.(1,000,000)
100
What is a cool, dark area of gas within the photosphere caused by powerful magnetic fields?.
Sunspots.
100
Liquid, Solids, and Gasses can not exist in the suns core. True or False?
False. Gases can.
200
What is the innermost layer of the solar atmosphere?
Photosphere
200
The core makes up __ % of the sun's total diameter.
10%
200
The zone surrounding the core is called the a. radiative zone b. convective zone
A(radiative zone)
200
What is a sheet of colored light produced by a magnetic storm in the earth's upper atmosphere?
Auroras
200
The________has three layers.
Atmosphere
300
What is the entire sun made out of?
Gas.
300
Liquid, Solids, and Gasses can not exist in the suns core. True or False?
False. Gases can.
300
Before reaching the sun's atmosphere, the energy produced in the core moves through ____ inner zones. a. 1 b. 2 c. 3
B(2)
300
What is a sudden, violent eruption of electrically charged atomic particles form the suns surface?
Solar Flares
300
The center of the sun is 10 times denser than iron.
True.
400
the photosphere is about ______ degrees Celsius
6,000 degrees Celsius
400
How many times greater is the sun's mass than the earth's mass?
300,000
400
What is the temperature of the radiative zone? A. 2,400,000 degrees Celsius B. 200 degrees Celsius C. 2,500,000 degrees Celsius
C.(2,500,000)
400
What is a cloud of glowing gasses that arches high charge?
prominence.
400
Before reaching the sun's atmosphere, the energy produced in the core moves through ____ inner zones. a. 1 b. 2 c. 3
B(2)
500
This sphere is made of gases bubbling up from the convective zone. What is it?
Photosphere
500
The center of the sun is 10 times denser than iron.
True.
500
in what zone does the energy move from atom to atom in the form of electromagnetic waves, or radiation?
Radiative zone
500
Above the Photosphere lies a thine layer of gases that seems to glow with a reddish light. Which is?
Chromosphere
500
the photosphere is about ______ degrees Celsius
6,000 degrees Celsius