Sun Properties

What takes up about 70% of the sun. (Hint: what it's MOSTLY made of)

• Hydrogen

• Oxygen

• Helium

• Carbon

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-1

What are TWO things that happen on the surface of the Sun?

• Sunspots

• Explosions

• Solar Flares

• Greenspots

Moving areas of magnetic activity with temperatures that are cooler than the area of the photosphere

• Photosphere

• Corona

• Sunspots

• Prominence

Sudden, intense explosions that result in changes in brightness when magnetic energy is released.

• Prominences

• Solar Flare

• Sunspot

• Photosphere

Bright arch-like loops that may erupt from the photosphere into the corona

• Sunspots

• Solar Flares

• Prominences

• Photosphere

Energy released from _________ can cause damage to the International Space Station, disrupt radio and electrical transmissions on Earth, and cause Auroras in the skies near the North and South Poles

• Sunspots

• Solar Flares

• Prominences

• Corona

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS4-3

Sunspots are dark because they are _____ than the area around them

• hotter

• cooler

• longer

• less magnetic

Where can most sunspots be found ?

• near the poles

• near the equator

• in the core

• outside the corona

Sunspots tend to occur in cycles which occur ever ______ years.

• 2

• 5

• 11

• 65

What are sunspots?

• the layer of the

  sun where hot plasma rises, then

  falls as it cools near the surface

• cool, dark spots appearing in groups on the

  surface of the Sun

• appears to move from left to right due to the rotation of the sun

• A large, bright, gaseous feature extending outward from the Sun’s surface, often in a loop shape