How hot is each one of the layers of the sun? (Beginner)

Hi i am doing a report for my 6 grade science class. I was wondering if you could answer the following question?

How hot is each one of the layers of the sun?

The centre of the Sun: about 15 million degrees Kelvin (K).

Radiative Zone: Temperature falls from about 7 million to about 2 million K across this zone.

Convection Zone: drops from 2 million K to 5800K in this zone.

Photosphere: about 5800K, although sunspots are about 3800K - that's why they are dark.

Chromosphere: 4300 to 8300 K from inside edge to outside edge

Corona: about 1 million degrees

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Karen was a graduate student at Cornell from 2000-2005. She went on to work as a researcher in galaxy redshift surveys at Harvard University, and is now on the Faculty at the University of Portsmouth back in her home country of the UK. Her research lately has focused on using the morphology of galaxies to give clues to their formation and evolution. She is the Project Scientist for the Galaxy Zoo project.

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