Across
- 2. the entire range of electromagnetic wavelengths that the sun emits
- 6. a small cool area on the suns photosphere
- 7. orbital motion around a point, such as the earth revolving around the sun.
- 9. the hot outer atmosphere of the sun that extends far out into space to become solar wind.
- 11. a stream of solar plasma that rises into the corona from the chromosphere and then gradually falls back
- 14. a sudden explosion of the plasma from the suns surface that emits a burst of energetic rays and particals into space
- 15. the lowest layer of the suns atmosphere starting at the photosphere and extending out to 2000 km from the surface.
Down
- 1. the suns output of protons, electron's, and small atomic nuclei into the solar system.
- 3. a long, narrow channel on a moon or planet that is believed to have originated from tectonic processes
- 4. the suns apparent path among the stars as observed from earth
- 5. a unit of astronomical distance equal to the earths average distance from the sun.
- 8. a broad lowland plane on the moon made of hardened lava
- 10. a nuclear reaction in which one large nucleus splits into smaller nuclei releasing large amounts of energy.
- 12. the visible surface around the sun.
- 13. a bright streak that radiates from some craters on the moons surface.
