Science Form 3 (Chapter 9 : Space Weather)
Across
- 2. A coronal mass ejections is a huge cloud of ___ that erupts from the Sun.
- 4. The ___ reduces the pressure exerted by solar wind on Earth's atmosphere.
- 7. The magnetosphere is formed by the interaction between ___ field brought by the solar wind and Earth's magnetic field.
- 9. The average diameter of a ___ is 1000km.
- 12. The thin layer of the Sun’s atmosphere that lies directly above the photosphere is the ___
- 15. What are the dark regions seen on the surface of the Sun?
- 16. The Sun consist of two types of gases, hydrogen and ___
- 18. Sun is a type of ___
- 20. The zone of the Sun’s interior that is between the core and the convective zone
Down
- 1. The ___ of the solar wind is supersonic with values 250kms-1 to 750kms-1.
- 3. What is the outer most part that we see only during an eclipse?
- 5. What is the layer that is responsible for the orange colour of the Sun that can be seen every day?
- 6. The sun is a glowing ball of _______.
- 8. The center of the sun, the ___, produces the energy that eventually reaches us and warms the Earth.
- 10. Charges gas particles form solar flares often collide with atoms and molecules in earth surface to produce ___
- 11. Excessive number of charged particles in Earth's atmosphere will disrupt ___
- 13. Prominence is a ___ loop or arched column of glowing gases over the sunspot.
- 14. Sunspots are phenomena that always exist in ___ or groups.
- 17. How many structures of the sun that form the Sun's atmosphere?
- 19. Granules which appear as ___ structures.