HELIOPHYSICS: What is it and how does it affect us on Earth? Assignmment for 1/30 and 2/2.

HELIOPHYSICS: What is it and how does it affect us on Earth?

 

Go to http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/overview/index.html and view the videos under the Sun-Earth Connection. Use two column note taking to record notes. It should look like this. Put the notes in your ISN.

Video Title	Notes from the video

 

Go to http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/spaceweather/index.html, read the site, watch the two parts of the FAQ video and answer the following questions.

Part One

 1. What is space weather?

2. What are coronal mass ejections?

 3. What are solar flares?

4. What are solar energetic particles?

 5. What causes flares and CMEs?

Part Two

1. Do all flares and CMEs affect the Earth?

 2. What happens when a flare or CME hits the Earth?

 3. How quickly can we feel the effects of space weather?

4. Why are there more flares and CMEs happening now?