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WorksheetsThe Sun Vocabulary Review
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 7mins
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Class
Date
1.
Skylab is:
a)
an azure colored room at NASA
b)
set up by the European and Russian space agencies to study Earth
c)
used to study the Sun and space from the vantage of space
d)
none of the above
2.
How many stars make up the Milky Way Galaxy?
a)
Our Sun is the only star in the Milky Way Galaxy
b)
over 100 million
c)
over 200 million
d)
over 200 billion
3.
How long does it take light to reach Earth from the Sun?
a)
8 seconds
b)
8 minutes
c)
8 hours
d)
8 parsecs
4.
Define plasma
a)
super-heated form of electrified and magnetized gas
b)
modern large screen television type
c)
the combination of gases, liquids and solids
d)
none of the other choices
5.
The Sun's core has which temperature?
a)
10,000oF
b)
270,000oF
c)
27 million oF
d)
27 billion oF
6.
Which are the three regions of the Sun?
a)
heliosphere, troposphere, photosphere
b)
corona, chromasphere, heliosphere
c)
photosphere, corona, troposphere
d)
photosphere, chromasphere, corona
7.
What is the definition of a sunspot?
a)
dark, cooler regions of the Sun that can stretch thousands of miles across
b)
different latitudes on the Sun's surface that rotate at different speeds
c)
energy released from magnetic fields on the Sun's surface
d)
none of the other choices
8.
Alphane waves are:
a)
magnetic waves that stretch out into space and are carried by the solar winds
b)
occur in the plasma of ionized gases that bring turbulent energy from the interior of the Sun to the Corona through friction
c)
seasons that have more or fewer sunspot activity on the Sun
d)
also known as solar storms
9.
How long is the solar cycle; composed of both the solar minimum and maximum?
a)
11 years
b)
11 days
c)
11 weeks
d)
11,000 years
10.
Huge amounts of mass and energy that is expelled from the solar surface is:
a)
prominences and flares
b)
coronal mass ejections
c)
the Ort cloud
d)
none of the other choices
11.
What is the heliosphere?
a)
connects sunspots through magnetic waves
b)
an artificial eclipse used to study the Sun
c)
the carbon footprint used when burning fossil fuels
d)
area formed by the solar wind that protects the solar system from intergalactic winds
12.
What is a white dwarf star?
a)
one that burns so hot it shrinks in mass
b)
an older star that burns cooler due to lack of oxygen
c)
the contracting core of a star that doesn't produce any new energy through fusion that fades over time
d)
burns brighter due to burning through all its hydrogen supply and starts to burn heluim
13.
A Red Giant does all of the following EXCEPT:
a)
is a contracting rocky core
b)
Burns through all its hydrogen
c)
Starts burning helium once hydrogen is gone
d)
expands outward forming planetary nebulae
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