Our Violent Sun

The Sun averages which distance from Earth?

• 73 million miles

• 83.5 million miles

• 93.5 million miles

• 150 million miles

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The Sun has very little affect on weather

• True

• False

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The Carrington Event occurred in the

• 19th century

• 20th century

• 21st century

• 18th century

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One of the damaging effects of the Carrington Event was

• burnt powerlines

• blackout of cellular networks

• nuclear power plants went offline

• telegraph wires were fried

Aurora Borealis or northern lights were seen as far south as ______ during the Carrington Event

• Ohio

• Florida

• California

• Venezuela

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The 1989 Solar Storm crippled the power grid of

• British Columbia

• Alberta

• Ontario

• Quebec

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Its estimated that a modern day solar event like the Carrington would cause ___________ dollars in damage.

• 3 million

• 3 billion

• 3 trillion

• 3 quadrillion

The Sun makes up ____% of the mass in the solar system

• 75

• 99.9

• 89.9

• 50

The energy produced by the sun is by the fusion of ____ and take ____years to get to its surface

• He, 10,000

• H, 30,000

• He, 30,000

• H, 10,000

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The first person to observe and prove the Sun's rotation based on sunspot picture books was

• Newton

• Copernicus

• Galileo

• Whitney