Celebration of Knowledge: STARS!

The Sun maintains its size because of equilibrium of….?

• Fission and fusion
• Pressure and gravity
• Light and dark
• Conduction and convection

How is energy transported outward from the Sun’s core?

• Magnetism
• Aberration
• Diffusion
• Radiation

The hottest region of the Sun’s atmosphere is called the…?

• Cloaca
• Corona
• Cotyledon
• Corbin

What takes place in the Sun’s core?

• Fusion
• Filtration
• Friction
• Fission

Who was the German-American physicist that figured out how the sequence of nucleus reactions in the Sun works?

• Henry Norris Russell
• Hans Bethe
• Albert Einstein
• Niels Henrik Bohr

What very-light and subatomic particle is emitted from a star like our Sun as a byproduct of fusion?

• Planck
• Tardigrade
• Neutrino
• Chromomatter

What Earthly event is caused by the solar wind at solar maximum?

• Northern lights
• Global warming
• Low tide
• Tsunamis

How long is the sunspot cycle?

• 1 year
• 11 years
• 100 years
• 111 years

What NASA mission failed do to the earthly effects of solar maximum?

• Apollo 13
• Apollo-Soyuz
• STS-51-L Challenger
• SkyLab

What phase of star will our Sun become next?

• Blue supergiant
• Black hole
• Red giant
• White dwarf