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WorksheetsSun Quiz
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
True or False -- Do we live in the sun's atmosphere?
a)
True
b)
False
2.
How many miles is the sun from the earth?
a)
86
b)
930
c)
93,000,000
d)
156,769,321
3.
How long does it take for a sun ray to travel to earth?
a)
8 seconds
b)
8 minutes
c)
18 seconds
d)
18 hours
4.
How many Earth's can fit inside the sun?
a)
13
b)
1.3 million
c)
56 billion
d)
103
5.
What is the electrified gas that burns on the sun?
a)
gas
b)
methane
c)
plasma
d)
unleaded
6.
What is a Solar Eclipse?
a)
Sun fronts the moon
b)
Sun goes out
c)
It's a song
d)
Moon travels in front of the sun and blocks its photosphere
7.
What's the coolest place on the sun?
a)
Sun Spots
b)
Craters
c)
Corona
d)
Flames
8.
What is solar maximum?
a)
Multiple Solar flares and bursts
b)
Minimal solar flares and bursts
c)
Noon
d)
Low point in the suns atmosphere
9.
What protects us from solar explosions and massive amounts of radiation during solar maximum?
a)
oceans
b)
trees
c)
atmosphere
d)
ozone layer
10.
In 1859 a super flare happened. What would happen if another occurred?
a)
Everyone would have free power
b)
Overload of electrodes in our atmosphere, and over 130 million would lose power.
c)
Burn up
d)
Earth would explode
11.
What is a Maunder Minimum?
a)
vibrations
b)
zero sun spots
c)
photosphere expansion
d)
Sun at a low point of sun spots
12.
What would happen if earth's ozone layer diminished?
a)
Plants would grow at a rapid race?
b)
Animals would migrate sooner?
c)
More ultraviolet rays would be let in, but not enough to be harmful?
d)
The polar caps would melt at a high rate?
13.
What is a Gamma Ray?
a)
Stars dying and colliding
b)
the sun expanding
c)
sun rays moving together
d)
Stars moving away from each other
14.
What would be affected greatly if we lost 50% of our ozone layer?
a)
NFL Football
b)
Stars
c)
Food Chain
d)
buildings
15.
What does Hydrogen turn into that becomes a fast heat burning gas on the sun?
a)
oxygen
b)
nitrogen
c)
helium
d)
argon
16.
Gases, 72% nitrogen, 27% oxygen, less than 1% argon, carbon
a)
biosphere
b)
atmosphere
c)
hydrosphere
d)
geosphere
17.
Water -- oceans, ponds, rivers, etc.
a)
atmosphere
b)
hydrosphere
c)
biosphere
d)
geosphere
18.
Living things - humans, animals, plants
a)
atmosphere
b)
hydrosphere
c)
biosphere
d)
geosphere
19.
Non-living, rocks, mountains, soil
a)
atmosphere
b)
hydrosphere
c)
biosphere
d)
geosphere
20.
What is the next stage the sun will be in 5 million years from now?
a)
red giant
b)
little giant
c)
yellow giant
d)
black giant
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