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The Sun in the solar system!

Total questions: 21

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is a nebula?

a)

large cloud of gas and dust containing immense volume of material

b)

Thanos' daughter or Gamora's sister

c)

the first stage of a star's formation

d)

I don't know

2.

What is the first stage of a star's formation?

a)

protostar

b)

nebula

c)

white dwarf

d)

a baby

3.

What is the final stage of a star?

a)

white dwarf

b)

supernova

c)

nebula

d)

my grandma

4.

What is an exploding supergiant star that has used up all of its energy known as?

a)

white hole

b)

black hole

c)

supernova

d)

helium and protons and electricity

5.

What is apparent brightness?

a)

the brightness of a star as seen from Earth

b)

the brightness of a star if it were a standard distance from Earth

c)

the brightness that is obviously known

d)

the brightness of this electronic device

6.

what is absolute brightness?

a)

the brightness of a star as seen from Earth

b)

the brightness of a star if it were at a standard distance from Earth

c)

the light when shined on a human's eye

d)

the color of a star

7.

what is a solar flare

a)

eruptions that occur when the loops in sunspot regions suddenly connect

b)

the center of the sun

c)

the atmosphere of the sun

d)

the layer of the sun that gives of visible light that is colored red and yellow

8.

What are the three layers of the atmosphere?

a)

photosphere, chromosphere, convection zone, radiation zone

b)

photosphere, chromosphere, corona

c)

convection zone, radiation zone, core zone

d)

sunosphere, lightosphere, mesosphere

9.

What are the three layers of the sun's interior?

a)

radiation zone

b)

corona

c)

core

d)

photosphere

e)

convection zone

10.

What is the process of hydrogen atoms fusing together to form helium called as?

a)

fission

b)

nuclear fusion

c)

nuclear fission

d)

solar eclipse

e)

solar flare

11.

What is a prominence?

a)

reddish loops of gas that link different spots of sunspot regions

b)

same thing as a solar flare

c)

same thing as a solar wind

d)

a type of sun or stage that it goes through

12.

What is the radiation zone?

a)

a region of smiles.

b)

a region of very tightly packed gas where energy is transferred mainly in the form of radiation.

c)

a stream of electrically charged particles that the corona gives out.

d)

the layer of the sun's atmosphere that gives out radiation.

13.

What is the central region of the sun?

a)

corona

b)

core

c)

centero´

14.

What is the outermost layer of the sun where hot gases rise from the bottom and cooler gases sink?

a)

convection zone

b)

radiation zone

c)

core

d)

conduction zone

15.

What is the layer of the atmosphere that gives off visible light?

a)

photosphere

b)

chromosphere

c)

corona

d)

core

16.

Which layer of the sun's atmosphere gives a reddish glow during a solar eclipse?

a)

chromosphere

b)

photosphere

c)

cornosphere

d)

corona

17.

During a total solar eclipse, what is the white halo that is seen called as?

a)

core

b)

solar white out

c)

halosphere

d)

corona

18.

What is the stream of electrically charged particles that the corona sends out called?

a)

solar wind

b)

solar flares

c)

prominences

d)

stream flares

19.

What are areas of gas that are cooler than the gas around them called? They are darker spots than the ones around them.

a)

sunspots

b)

solarspots

c)

coolspots

d)

blackspots

20.

What is a prominence?

a)

reddish loops of gas that link sunspots

b)

solar flares results

c)

an area of "land" on the sun

d)

the red atmosphere around the sun

21.

What are explosions that are a result of loops in sunspot regions causing gas to explode into space?

a)

solar flares

b)

solar winds

c)

sunspots

d)

sunnerflares with wind problems