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What is the northern and southern lights
What forms when high energy particles from the Sun collide with neutral atoms in our atmosphere
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What is aurora borealis
What is the official name for the northern lights?
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What is to spread and promote
Propagate
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What is the Sun, Earth's magnetic fields, and Earth's atmosphere
What are the 3 locations that all contribute to making auroras?
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What is Aurora Australis
What is the official name for the southern lights?
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What is to relate to, measuring, or measured by the quantity of something rather than its quality
Quantitative
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What is the Corona
What part of the Sun do electrons and protons depart from?
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What is Nitrogen
What makes the color of the aurora purple and blue?
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What is to situate or extend across something
transverse
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What is the Magnetosphere
What are the magnetic currents formed by Earth that shield the planet from solar winds?
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What is Oxygen
What makes the color of the aurora green or red?
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What is the directional energy flux (the energy transfer per unit area per unit time) or power flow of an electromagnetic field
Poynting flux
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What is Coronal Mass Ejection
What occurs when the Sun shoots out a massive ball of plasma known as solar wind?
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What is the magnetic field
What are the lines that carry the particles down to both of the global poles?
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What is the transverse electromagnetic wave that propagates along the lines of force in a magnetized plasma
Alfvén waves
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