Review: Solar System, Asteroids, Comets, and Meteors

What are the areas of gas on the surface on the sun that are cooler than the area around them?

• Solar Wind
• Solar Flare
• Prominence
• Sunspot

Which layer of the Sun's atmosphere is the layer that we can always see?

• corona
• photosphere
• chromosphere
• core

Identify the prominence in the diagram below.

• 6
• 7
• 8
• 9

How does the Sun produce energy?

• Fusion
• Solar Flares
• Prominences
• Solar Wind

What fuels the Sun?

• Lithium
• Carbon
• Helium
• Hydrogen

What is the effect of solar weather on Earth? (check all that apply)

• There is no effect.
• Communications could be interrupted.
• Auroras at the poles.
• Gravity will increase.

An explosion on the surface of the sun is called a _______________.

• Solar Flare
• Sunspot
• Prominence
• Corona

Which of the following is a main way that scientist classify planets?

• by their shape
• by their color
• by what they are made of
• by their temperature

How do you describe the orbit of each planet around the Sun in our solar system?

• no defined shape
• elliptical/oval
• circular
• spherical

Which list has the planets in order of closest to the sun to furthest?

• Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.
• neptune, uranis, saturn, jupiter, mars, earth, venus, mercury
• neptune, uranis, jupiter, saturn, mars, venus, earth, mercury
• venus, mercury, earth, neptune, uranus, saturn, jupiter, mars