Sun and Seasons Review

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What are explosions of hot gas that shoot from the Sun's surface that release tremendous amounts of energy into space and occur when prominences connect.

What part of the sun emits light and is the most prominent (largest) layer of the suns atmosphere?

Earth rotates on its tilted axis. What is the degree of the tilt of Earth's axis?

The day whenthe tilt of Earth cuases the length of day to be the longest or the shortest is called a ___

If the tilt of Earth is away from the sun, there is a shorter length of day, and the season is ______

Huge, looping eruptions of gas, usually near sunspots, that arch out from the photosphere into the outer layers of the sun's atmosphere are called

What is the outer layer of the sun's atmosphere that looks like a white halo and can only be seen during a total eclipse?

What forms near the poles when solar winds cause gases in the atmosphere to glow?