The Sun

1) The light we see from the Sun comes from which layer?

• A) troposphere

• B) chromosphere

• C) photosphere

• D) ionosphere

• E) corona

2) The temperature of the layer of gas that produces the visible light of the Sun is:

• A) 3,500 K.

• B) 5,800 K.

• C) 12,300 K.

• D) 300,000 K.

• E) 15 million K.

3) Why couldn't you stand on the Sun's surface?

• A) The Sun has no surface at all...the photosphere is an illusion.

• B) You could stand on the surface.

• C) The Sun doesn't have a solid surface.

• D) The Sun's surface is too highly magnetized for anything to survive there.

• E) You could stand on it, if a sufficiently protective spacesuit could be designed.

4) How many planet Earths could fit inside the Sun?

• A) 110

• B) about a thousand

• C) a little over a million

• D) almost ten million

• E) close to a billion

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

5) The density of the Sun is most similar to which object?

• A) Halley's Comet's nucleus

• B) the Earth

• C) Mercury

• D) the Moon

• E) Jupiter

6) The area in the Sun's atmosphere located above the chromosphere (1,500-10,000 km) where the temperature rises dramatically is called the:

• A) photosphere.

• B) corona.

• C) solar wind.

• D) transition zone.

• E) convection zone.

7) About what percent of the incoming energy from the Sun reaches Earth's surface?

• A) 80-100%

• B) 70-90%

• C) 60-80%

• D) 50-70%

• E) 30-60%

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NGSS.HS-ESS2-4

8) The solar constant is a measure of:

• A) the energy received by the Sun on Earth's surface.

• B) the energy received by the Sun at the location of Earth.

• C) the energy received by the Sun at any location in the solar system.

• D) the energy emitted by the Sun at the photosphere.

• E) the total energy emitted by the Sun in all directions.

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NGSS.HS-PS3-1

9) The luminosity of the Sun is a measure of:

• A) the energy received by the Sun on Earth's surface.

• B) the energy received by the Sun at the location of Earth.

• C) the energy received by the Sun at any location in the solar system.

• D) the energy emitted by the Sun at the photosphere.

• E) the total energy emitted by the Sun in all directions.

10) From inside out, which is in the correct order for the structure of the Sun?

• A) core, convective zone, radiative zone

• B) photosphere, radiative zone, corona

• C) radiative zone, convective zone, chromosphere

• D) core, chromosphere, photosphere

• E) convective zone, radiative zone, granulation