Differential rotation of the Sun is
A) heating in the chromosphere and corona that makes them hotter than the photosphere.
B) the magnetic dynamo inside the Sun.
C) the equatorial regions of the Sun rotating more rapidly than the polar regions.
D) the origin (and subsequent disappearance of) Sunspots first near the poles then closer to the Sun's equator as the Sunspot cycle progresses.
E) the rotation of the Sun's southern and northern hemispheres in opposite directions.
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Q2: The _ occurs when a rapidly rotating
Q3: The corona and chromosphere of the Sun
Q4: Helioseismology shows that deeper layers of gas
Q5: Most of the visible light we see
Q6: The proton-proton chain
A)combines two hydrogen nuclei to
Q7: The chromosphere of the Sun
A)is hotter than
Q8: A filtergram is a photograph of the
Q9: The _ coincides with the period known
Q10: Sunspots are known to be magnetic phenomena
Q11: Sunspots are dark because
A)regions of the photosphere
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