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Solar System
solar system facts
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5th Grade
01/10/2010

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Solar Prominences
Definition
Clouds of flaming gas, rising from the suns surface
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Sun spot
Definition
A region that appears dark, because it is cooler, and produces less light than the other areas on the photosphere.
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Chromosphere
Definition
a gaseous layer of the suns atmosphere ; it is visible during the total ecplipse of the sun
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radiation zone
Definition
a region where energy is passed from an atom to atom until it escapes into the convection zone
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core
Definition
the region where energy is produced, through nuclear fusion
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corona
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the outer most region of the suns atmosphere, it is visible as a white hallow during the solar eclipse
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convection zone
Definition
a region of plasma where energy is heated and transferred throught the process of convection
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solar flare
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a violent eruption in the suns atmosphere around sunspots in the corona and cromosphere
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photosphere
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a thin layer of low pressure gases, that emmits the sunlight we see
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what is the distance from the earth
Definition
93,000,000
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what are the phases of the moon starting with full moon
Definition
full moon, waning gibbous, last quarter, waning crescent, new moon, waxing crescent, first quarter.
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what do you call the moon with less than half visible
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crescent moon
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what do you call the moon with more than half the moon showing
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gibbous
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when the moon appears to be getting bigger it is..
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waxing
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when the moon appears to get smaller it is..
Definition
waning
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