The Solar Cycle

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Across
  1. 1. the most violent type of energetic phenomena in the sun
  2. 4. these reverse every 11 years from the northern to the southern hemisphere.
  3. 6. this is generated and amplified from the combined effects of rotation and convection
  4. 7. a period of time when only a few sun spots are seen
  5. 9. Approximately four years into a cycle when the number of sun spots are at their highest
  6. 11. when magnetic field lines go above the surface dragging plasma and forming arcs
Down
  1. 2. a constant jet stream of charged particles from the solar corona. They are somewhat to blame for the tails of comets pointing away from the sun.
  2. 3. a 22-year old cycle that is often shown by images of an 11-year cycle.
  3. 5. a lengthy period of solar inactivity from 1645-1715
  4. 8. when magnetic fields form bubbles instead of arcs
  5. 10. one of the oldest known types of solar activity where magnetic field lines trap the solar plasma and convection stops
  6. 12. this cycle is set to peak in mid-2013 and will be much less active than normal