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The Sun Quiz

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What takes place in the core of the Sun?

a)

Nuclear Fission

b)

Mini Explosions

c)

Plasma Blasts

d)

Nuclear Fusion

2.

How long does it take for energy to travel through the radiation zone?

a)

100 years

b)

1 year

c)

1,000 years

d)

100,000 years

3.

What is the outermost layer of the sun's INTERIOR?

a)

Core

b)

Photosphere

c)

Convection Zone

d)

Corona

4.

How many years until the Sun consumes Earth?

a)

3.1 billion years

b)

150 million years

c)

9 billion years

d)

7.5 billion years

5.

What is the inner layer of the sun's atmosphere

a)

Core

b)

Photosphere

c)

Chromosphere

d)

Corona

6.

When looking at the Sun, what part of it do you see?

a)

Corona

b)

Photosphere

c)

Chromosphere

d)

Convection Zone

7.

What is the middle layer of the sun's atmosphere?

a)

Radiation Zone

b)

Chromosphere

c)

Corona

d)

Core

8.

What is the outer layer of the sun's atmosphere?

a)

Corona

b)

Convection Zone

c)

Photosphere

d)

None of these answers

9.

What color halo is shown around the Sun during a solar eclipse?

a)

red

b)

yellow

c)

white

d)

blue

10.

What are the areas of gas on the sun's surface that are cooler than the gases around them?

a)

Solar flares

b)

Solar wind

c)

Prominences

d)

Sunspots

11.

Sunspots appear in a cycle of:

a)

5 years

b)

100 years

c)

11 years

d)

15 years

12.

What are huge loops of gas from the Sun called?

a)

Solar Flares

b)

Prominences

c)

Solar Wind

d)

Sunspots

13.

What is energy from prominences that heat up causing gas to erupt called?

a)

Light Flares

b)

Solar Flares

c)

Sunspots

d)

Solar Eruptions

14.

What are streams of electrical particles from the Sun called?

a)

Solar wind

b)

Solar flares

c)

Electrical wind

d)

Radiation currents

15.

Although the Earth's atmosphere blocks solar wind particles, where can those particles still enter?

a)

Poles

b)

Equator

c)

Prime Meridian

d)

Never enter

16.

Solar wind create powerful electrical currents that cause gas molecules in the air to glow, this then causes

a)

stars to be seen

b)

meteor showers

c)

a shooting star

d)

auroras

17.

Solar wind could cause which of the following (other than auroras):

a)

Magnetic storms

b)

They only cause auroras

c)

Climate change

d)

Tectonic plates shifting

18.

What can happen if a magnetic storm takes place?

a)

Blackouts

b)

Heat waves

c)

Wifi goes out (that means no Fortnite)

d)

Earthquakes

19.

What type of rays/waves do solar flares emit?

a)

X-rays & Infrared rays

b)

Radio waves & Ultraviolet rays

c)

Gamma rays & X-rays

d)

Solar flares do not emit any rays/waves

20.

Where do prominences often link to?

a)

Anywhere on the Sun

b)

Sunspot regions

c)

Close to where they started

d)

The poles