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.