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Title: Which of the following statements is true of the solar wind?
Post by: michaela40 on Mar 19, 2018
Which of the following statements is true of the solar wind?
 
  A) It makes the Sun gain mass.
  B) It can be considered an extension of the corona.
  C) It makes the gases from the solar atmosphere flow along the magnetic fields that point inward.
  D) It refers to slow-moving atoms and ions that enter the solar corona.

Question 2

The presence of granulation is clear evidence that energy is flowing upward through the photosphere by a process known as__________.
 
  A) convection
  B) ionization
  C) blueshift
  D) polarization

Question 3

Which of the following best describes a filtergram?
 
  A) It is a region inside a star where energy is carried outward as rising hot gas.
  B) It is composed of ionized gas trapped in a magnetic arch rising up through the photosphere.
  C) It is an atom in which an electron has moved from a lower to a higher energy level.
  D) It is a photograph taken in the light of a specific region of the spectrum of the Sun.

Question 4

In the context of the excitation of atoms, jumps of electrons from one orbit to another are sometimes called__________.
 
  A) magnetic jumps
  B) transitional jumps
  C) filtered jumps
  D) quantum jumps

Question 5

Neutrons:
 
  A) have double the mass of protons.
  B) are atomic particles with no charge.
  C) when equal in number form isotopes.
  D) exist independently and unattached to atoms.


Title: Which of the following statements is true of the solar wind?
Post by: kkiahtherese on Mar 19, 2018
Answer to q. 1

B

Answer to q. 2

A

Answer to q. 3

D

Answer to q. 4

D

Answer to q. 5

B


Title: Which of the following statements is true of the solar wind?
Post by: michaela40 on Mar 19, 2018
Brilliant