Reflection: Answer as many as you like (at least 1).
What is something new you learned?
What is something that suprised you?
What questions do you have?
What would you like to learn more about?
Which 2 elements make up the majority of the Sun?
What state of matter makes up the Sun?
Which layer is the "nuclear reactor" where fusion occurs?
On average, it takes more than 100 thousand years for a photon, a packet of energy released by the core, to escape the dense radiative zone.
How long does it take a photon to move through the convective zone?
What is the visible surface of the Sun known as?
Which 2 layers make up the Sun's atmosphere?
What does the process of nuclear fusion inside the Sun create?
How many hydrogen bombs' worth of energy is released every second by the Sun?
What keeps the Sun from exploding?
The Sun has a north and south pole.
The Sun's plasma spins faster at the poles than the equator.
What occurs when the Sun's magnetic field lines break through the surface?
What occurs during magnetic reconnection on the Sun?
What is a coronal mass ejection (CME)?
How often does the Sun's magnetic field switch poles?
What produces "space weather"?
How do solar flares behave?
How do coronal mass ejections (CMEs) behave?
Sun spots are dark because they are relatively than their surroundings.
What protects Earth from solar wind and solar storms?
What is the area of space where the magnetic field interacts with the solar wind called?
What happens to most charged particles when they enter the magnetosphere?
What phenomenon is created when solar particles collide with molecules in our atmosphere?
What can significant solar storms interfere with?
What is the current state of our ability to predict solar storms?