Aurora Borealis

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Aurora Borealis

• By Kristen and Miranda

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What is Aurora Borealis?

• Aurora Borealis, or other wise known as the
  Northern Lights, is a colorful occurrence that is
  mostly seen around the northern horizon, and in
  the polar zone.
• The northern lights can be any bight color,
  depending on where it is. Example In Iceland the
  northern lights might be a blue, white, or green.

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Were Does the Northern Lights get its name?

• The northern lights gets its name from the
  names
• Aurora The name of the Roman goddess of dawn.
• Borealis The Greek word for north wind.

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What causes the northern lights?

• The northern lights are caused by the collision
  of charged electrons that are found in the
  magnetosphere.
• A Magnetosphere is a region in space in which
  fantastic events are organized by Earths magnetic
  field.
• Along with atoms in the Earths upper atmosphere
  they create beautiful colorations of light.

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Early sighting of the northern lights

• The first time anyone has spotted the northern
  lights occurred on September 2nd, 1859.
• This was the first time it was spotted world
  wide!
• Some places where you can see these magnificent
  lights is in Alaska and California.

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A Legend of Aurora Borealis

• The Makah Indians of Washington state thought the
  northern lights where fires in the Far North,
  over which a tribe of dwarfs, half the length of
  a canoe paddle and so strong they caught whales
  with their hands, boiled blubber.

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The wonders of aurora borealis
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Wonders continued