Differential Rotation of the Sun Is

question 101

Multiple Choice

Differential rotation of the sun is

• A) heating in the chromosphere and corona that makes them hotter than the photosphere.
• B) the magnetic dynamo inside the sun.
• C) the equatorial regions of the sun rotating more rapidly than the polar regions.
• D) the origin (and subsequent disappearance of) sunspots first near the poles then closer to the sun's equator as the sunspot cycle progresses.
• E) the rotation of the sun's southern and northern hemispheres in opposite directions.

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