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1. What are the six regions of the Sun?
2. What is nuclear fusion? What role does nuclear fusion play in the Sun?
3. How are sunspots and solar flares similar? How are they different?
4. What is a solar eclipse?

CRITICAL THINKING QUESTIONS

1. Imagine that you are traveling in a spaceship to the center of the Sun. What would you experience and see in each of the Sun’s regions?
2. What is the proton-proton chain reaction? Describe this process.
3. How does the Sun manage to maintain an environment in its core that is conducive to nuclear fusion?
4. As the Sun ages, what will happen to life here on Earth? Why?
5. How can solar weather affect our lives on Earth?