Solar System Sec. 1 & 2

What is the outer layer of the sun's atmosphere? 

What is an eruption of gas from the sun's surface called? 

Where is the sun's energy produced? 

Outermost layer of the sun's interior...

The sun, planets,and their moons, and other objects that revolve around the sun make up what?  

What is the model that places the sun in the center of the universe? 

During what event could you see the sun's corona? 

The sun is made up of what? 

What are areas of gas on the sun that are cooler than the gases around them called? 

What is the central region of the sun called? 

This happens when particles of the solar wind strike gas molecules in Earth's upper atmosphere?

What are huge reddish loops of gas called? Often linking sunspot regions together

Why do sunspots look darker than the rest of the sun's photosphere? 

What is the inner layer of the sun's atmosphere called?

What is the middle layer of the sun's atmosphere called? 

This Greek astronomer helped further the geocentric model

What is the joining of hydrogen atoms to form helium? 

What are streams of electrically charged particles called?

Which of the sun's layers produces its visible light? 

Who is the Polish astronomer known for revolutionizing astronomy with his heliocentric theory?

What is an orbit of each planet called? 

What is a region of very tightly packed gas where energy is transfered?

This astronomer used a telescope to help prove the heliocentric system

Which of these planets below was one of the six planets originally known to the ancient Greeks

Model that places the earth at the center of the universe...