Sun Review

The center of the earth is roughly how many degrees Fahrenheit ?

• 2 million degrees
• 10 million degrees
• 27 million degrees
• 500 degrees

what is convection

• super fly/ hit them folks
• dab
• when heat rises and cold lowers 
• when the sun is heating up earth

A stream of particles that extends outward from the sun's corona is called

• A sunspot
• Chromosphere
• Prominence
• Solar wind

_____ are loops of gas on the sun that link different parts of sunspot regions together. 

• Prominences
• Solar flares
• Solar winds
• Auroras

The layer of the sun's atmosphere that gives off the visible light we see is the 

• Corona
• Chromosphere
• Photosphere
• Convection zone

This is the final layer of the sun's atmosphere. It appears as a halo around the moon during a solar eclipse. 

• Crown
• Corona
• Photosphere

What is the name of the star that is the center of our solar system?

• Betelgeuse
• Sun
• Mira
• Polaris

The sun supports life on Earth by all of eh following except:

• Helping humans synthesize Vitamin D
• Allowing plants to harness solar energy to produce their own sugars
• Helping humans reduce Vitamin D production
• Powering the water cycle and creating weather,

Nuclear fusion is the process by which the Sun produces energy. In which part of the Sun does nuclear fusion occur?

• photosphere
• corona
• core
• radiative zone

Why do sunspots look darker than the rest of the Sun's photosphere?

• Sunspots are somewhat cooler than the rest of the sun's surface. 
• Sunspots are somewhat warmer than the rest of the sun's surface.
• sunspots are not going through nuclear fusion all the time. 
• sunspots are not as bright as the rest of the sun's surface