Sun Features

A satellite took x-ray pictures of a solar flare. How did the solar flare most likely appear on the x-ray pictures?

• as a dark spot

• as a swirl of red flames

• as a flamelike projection

• as an area of bright white light

Gas flows outward from the corona and forms the __________.

• sunspot

• aurora

• solar wind

• solar flare

The Sun contains __________ percent of all the mass in our solar system.

• 1

• 5

• 50

• 99

Huge loops of reddish gas that connect sunspots are called:

• prominences

• solar flares

• coronal loops

• solar wind

Energy is created in the core when two _____________ atoms join together to form a ______________ atom.

• helium, hydrogen

• carbon, hydrogen

• nitrogen, helium

• hydrogen, helium

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-1

NGSS.HS-PS1-8

When we look at the sun, what layer are we viewing?

• photosphere

• chromosphere

• corona

• convection zone

What layer of the sun's atmosphere gives the sun its "white halo" during a solar eclipse?

• chromosphere

• photosphere

• corona

• atmosphere

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Areas of gas on the sun's surface that are cooler than gases around them are called:

• corona

• prominences

• sunspots

• solarspots

When prominences erupt into space releasing gas and energy we call this: 

• solar winds

• coronal outburst

• solar flares

• auroras

Almost ALL of the natural light on Earth's surface comes from the -

• planets.

• Moon.

• stars.

• Sun.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1