A Cutaway View of the Sun's Layers

A Cutaway View of the Sun's Layers

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Multiple Choice

Read this statement from the Corona caption in the diagram. According to A Cutaway View of the Sun’s Layers, the Sun’s heat is a result of –

• the corona’s atmosphere

• fusion reactions in the core

• electrical and magnetic fields

• the Parker Space Probe

Multiple Choice

What can the reader conclude based on this sentence and the information in A Cutaway View of the Sun’s Layers?

• The Moon, Earth and Sun all have an inner core and outer layers.

• The Earth’s core is even hotter than the Sun’s core because of fusion.

• The Earth and Moon will someday generate heat and light like the Sun.

• The Moon must also produce radiation and solar winds.

Multiple Choice

Based on the selections, the Sun does not have –

• an atmosphere

• hydrogen and helium

• a central core

• a mantle and crust

Multiple Choice

What is one way that scientists are able to learn about both the Sun and the Moon?

• Astronaut landing vehicles

• Giant Impact Hypothesis

• Space probes

• Greek mythology

Multiple Choice

According to the diagram, which of the Sun’s layers is located between the convection zone and the core?

• The core

• The corona

• The radiative zone

• The mantle

Multiple Choice

According to the diagram, which of the Sun’s layers is located between the convection zone and the core?

• The core

• The corona

• The radiative zone

• The mantle

Multiple Choice

Based on paragraph 4 of What’s the Moon Made Of, the reader can infer that lunar scientists are –

• slow to make important decisions about lunar exploration

• planning to send astronauts back to the Moon’s surface with shovels

• convinced the Moon is older than the Earth

• still uncertain as to how the Moon formed

Multiple Choice

After reading both A Cutaway View of the Sun’s Layers and What’s the Moon Made Of, the reader can tell the Sun and Moon differ in that –

• the Sun is made of gases, while the Moon is made of rock

• only the Sun has a central core and outer layers

• the Sun’s gravity is far less powerful than the Moon’s gravity

• NASA scientists can only send probes to the Moon

Multiple Choice

Which sentence from What’s the Moon Made Of supports the Giant Impact Hypothesis?

• The astronauts collected soil and rock samples as part of their mission.

• Also, the direction of Earth’s spin lines up nicely with the Moon’s orbit.

• Still, we have questions that need answers before we accept any theory.

• This dark igneous rock was once magma deep under the Moon’s crust and gives today’s scientists an idea of the layers that lie beneath the Moon’s surface.