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What causes the aurora borealis or northern lights to occur?


-Streams of charged particles from the sun mix with Earth's atmosphere

-Light from the moon reflects on Earth's atmosphere

-Charged particles from the sun reflect off of the ice at the poles

-None of the above

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The correct answer to your question is A. : Streams of charged particles from the sun mix with Earth's atmosphere.  I took a test with this same question, i got it correct!

The northern lights or the aurora borealis are the lights that are produced by the reflection of the sun EMR on the earth's upper atmosphere.

  • The atomic electrons that are produced by the sun and their interaction with the layers of the higher atmosphere leads to the lighting phenomenon.
  • Thus streams of charged particles from the sun mix with Earth's atmosphere. Hence the option A is correct.

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