Question

Penny views a picture of a giant loop extending from the Sun. She labels this loop as a solar flare, but her lab partner disagrees. Which statement BEST illustrates why Penny labeled the picture incorrectly?

Select one or more:

a.

It is a sunspot, erupting dark plasma out from the surface.

b.

It is a prominence, which are large loops of gas in the Sun’s atmosphere.

c.

It is a convection current, circulating heat from the core to the surface.

d.
It is a Coriolis current, a rotation of plasma at the surface.

Answer 1

Your answer is B), The prominence is a large arch of incandescent gases erupting from the sun's surface, a solar flare is simply a sudden release of intense radiation from the sun.