Space Weather and Exploration

A giant arch that explodes off of the sun’s surface is a

• Sun Flare

• Sun Spot

• Corona

• Solar Prominence

__ is a darker, cooler than other surrounding areas of the Sun

• Solar Prominence

• Solar Flares

• Sun Spots

• Plasma

The thin layer of the Sun’s atmosphere that lies directly above the photosphere is the ___

• Corona

• Convection Zone

• Chromosphere

• Radiative Zone

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

How does the Sun’s energy and radiation affect Earth?

• It makes planets explodes

• It makes planets melts

• It doesn't

• It releases harmful radiation into space

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

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Which layer of the Sun is the hottest?

• Corona

• Photosphere

• Chromosphere

• Core

Burst or eruptions of energy that flash off the Sun

• Sun Spots

• Solar Flares

• Prominence

• Solar Wind

Where are convective currents happening?

• Radiative Zone

• Core

• Corona

• Convective Zone

It means crown. Which is the outer most part that we see only during an eclipse?

• Corona

• Core

• Convective Zone

• Chromosphere

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Layer through which energy is transferred in the form of electromagnetic waves

• Convective zone

• Corona

• Chromosphere

• Radiative zone

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NGSS.MS-PS4-2

The two most abundant elements of the Sun are ___

• Hydrogen and Helium

• Hydrogen and Carbon

• Nitrogen and Carbon

• Helium and Nitrogen

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