Answer the following questions:
1. What is a solar mass ejection?
2. Explain how the northern lights are formed.
3. When would you go outside for the best viewing?
4. If you were in Gaylord, name a city you would look to in order to see the northern lights?
5. What is the most common northern lights color?
1. What is a solar mass ejection?
2. Explain how the northern lights are formed.
3. When would you go outside for the best viewing?
4. If you were in Gaylord, name a city you would look to in order to see the northern lights?
5. What is the most common northern lights color?
Answer the following questions:
1. When was the solar eclipse?
2. Who could see it?
3. Use Google Maps to find a location where the solar eclipse could be viewed, how does this compare to where you live?
4. What happens during the total solar eclipse?
1. When was the solar eclipse?
2. Who could see it?
3. Use Google Maps to find a location where the solar eclipse could be viewed, how does this compare to where you live?
4. What happens during the total solar eclipse?
Research and answer the following questions:
1. What is the sun?
2. About how old is it?
3.How does it produce heat and light?
4. What do we call this process?
5.What happens during a solar flare? Watch the video on solar flares.
1. What is the sun?
2. About how old is it?
3.How does it produce heat and light?
4. What do we call this process?
5.What happens during a solar flare? Watch the video on solar flares.
Watch one of the videos above.
Describe the layers of the sun.
Describe the layers of the sun.
"Explore the Sun in Depth": Choose 5 important facts about the sun. Write them down. Be prepared to discuss them in class.
1. What is a sunspot?
2. How do they form?
3. How long do sunspots live?
4. Do sunspots change anything for us on earth?
2. How do they form?
3. How long do sunspots live?
4. Do sunspots change anything for us on earth?
1. What is the "Big Bang"?
2. How long ago do scientists estimate it happening?
3. What questions remain about the Big Bang?
2. How long ago do scientists estimate it happening?
3. What questions remain about the Big Bang?
Watch the video above and answer the following questions:
1. Why is it necessary to use light years?
2. How many miles is one light second?
3. What are some things that travel as fast as the speed of light?
4. What is a light year?
1. Why is it necessary to use light years?
2. How many miles is one light second?
3. What are some things that travel as fast as the speed of light?
4. What is a light year?
1. Rank yellow, red, and blue stars from the hottest to coolest.
2. Explain why each star burns differently.
2. Explain why each star burns differently.