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Auroras

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The northern lights are known as the _______. The southern lights are known as the _______ .
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How do the northern and southern lights occur?

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What are the three pit stops of the light that is emitted by the sun?

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The protons and electrons crating the northern lights depart from the suns...

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Create a labeled diagram of the sun.

Word bank:
corona
chromosphere
Photosphere
convection zone
radiation zone
core

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Free protons and electrons move too __________ to be contained by the suns __________. They group together as __________ an electrically charged gas. The travel away from the sun and are known as __________.
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When a coronal mass ejection occurs, it __________ the magnetosphere of Earth and creates a __________.
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The magnetosphere can be stretched back by the solar winds like an

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The __________ band of the magnetic filed causes particles to go to the magnetic __________, which are the locations of the Northern and Southern lights.
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What subatomic particles and atoms meet up to make the Northern lights?

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The particles meet they get excited and emit?

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The colors that appear in the sky depends on the __________ of the atoms photons.
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Green and red colors come from

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Blue and deep red hues of color are from

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Create an infographic of an Aurora.
* How are they made?
* How are the different colors produced?
* Where/when/how are they seen best?