Chapter 22 - The Sun, Moon, And Earth System

Question 0

What is the sun mostly composed of

Answer 0

Hydrogen

Question 1

The distance between the earth and sun

Answer 1

Astronomical unit

Question 2

What state is the sun in?

Answer 2

Plasma

Question 3

What is solar wind made of

Answer 3

Protons and electrons

Question 4

Which temperatures are higher: photosphere or corona?

Answer 4

Corona

Question 5

Where do thermo nuclear reactions occur?

Answer 5

The sun’s core

Question 6

What are severe solar storms called?

Answer 6

Solar flares

Question 7

Which density is greater: moon or Earth?

Answer 7

Earth

Question 8

What is the moon’s gravity compared to the Earth’s?

Answer 8

The moon’s gravity is one-sixth of the earth’s

Question 9

Why doesn’t the moon have a large atmosphere?

Answer 9

It doesn’t have much mass

Question 10

Which theory says that the earth and moon both formed from the same cloud?

Answer 10

Accretion

Question 11

The apparent path that the sun goes through

Answer 11

Ecliptic

Question 12

The average distance from the center of the moon to the center of the earth

Answer 12

More than 340,000

Question 13

Is the moon waxing or waning in the beginning of the cycle?

Answer 13

Waxing

Question 14

What phase must the moon be for a lunar eclipse to occur?

Answer 14

Full moon

Question 15

Where does the convective current take place?

Answer 15

Convective zone

Question 16

What is the plasma called that leaves the sun and loops back around?

Answer 16

Solar prominences

Question 17

What do scientists use to block out the sun to see the corona?

Answer 17

Coronagraph

Question 18

What evidence do we have that the sun is spinning on its axis?

Answer 18

Sunspots

Question 19

What is the most spectacular crater on the moon?

Answer 19

Tycho

Question 20

Which way do cusps face?

Answer 20

Away from the sun

Question 21

What is the nickname for the moon in mid to late September?

Answer 21

Harvest moon

Question 22

Where is the moon in a solar eclipse?

Answer 22

In between the earth and the sun

Question 23

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

Answer 23

Corona

Question 24

What is the visible surface of the sun called?

Answer 24

Photosphere

Question 25

Where does radiation happen on the sun?

Answer 25

Radiative zone

Question 26

What’s a specific kind of solar flare?

Answer 26

Coronal mass ejection

Question 27

What are the pointed jets on the chromosphere?

Answer 27

Spicules

Question 28

Depressions on the moon

Answer 28

Craters

Question 29

Points of crescent moon

Answer 29

Cusps

Question 30

When the moon is lined up with the sun

Answer 30

Eclipse

Question 31

Large dark areas on the sun

Answer 31

Sunspots

Question 32

When the moon is closest to the earth

Answer 32

Perigee

Question 33

Large dark areas on the moon

Answer 33

Marias