Earth and Space Riddles 6th grade Unit 6

Areas of the photosphere that appear to be darker because they have a lower temperature.

A rocky mass up to several hundred kilometers wide that revolves around the sun.

An explosive eruption of waves and particles from the sun's surface into space.

What forms when a meteoroid hits Earth's atmosphere.

A ribbon of glowing gases that leaps out of the chromosphere into the corona.

A natural object that orbits a body bigger than itself.

The layer above the photosphere in the sun's atmosphere.